The Department of Justice spent $121 million of taxpayer funds on “conference activity” over two years, according to an internal audit by the department’s inspector general. Apparently those $16 muffins and $32 snacks add up quickly.

The report shows $47.8 million in conference-related costs for fiscal year 2008. But expenditures spiked in fiscal year 2009, totaling $73.3 million. All told, the department spent more than $200 million on conferences from 2005 through 2009. (Costs for 2007 weren’t tabulated because Congress failed to request information that year.)

Among the conference-related expenditures: Lunches costing $76 per person, snacks costing $32 per attendee, 250 muffins costing $16 each, coffee running more than $8 per cup, and cookies running $10 per person. All billed to the American taxpayer.