So you think Tyco Tycoon Kozlowski’s $6,000 shower curtain  was extravagant?  Not quite … a piece of drapery at the Capital cost $8,000:

“With barely a word about it, workers at the Justice Department Friday removed the blue drapes that have famously covered two scantily clad statues for the past 3 1/2 years.

Spirit of Justice, with her one breast exposed and her arms raised, and the bare-chested male Majesty of Law basked in the late afternoon light of Justice’s ceremonial Great Hall.

The drapes, installed in 2002 at a cost of $8,000, allowed then-Attorney General John Ashcroft to speak in the Great Hall without fear of a breast showing up behind him in television or newspaper pictures. They also provoked jokes about and criticism of the deeply religious Ashcroft.”

Ashcroft Gone, Justice Statutes Disrobe, from the Washington Post