Tab for one (taxpayer-funded) undercover steak: $662
Your tax dollars at work. When Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow was taken to dinner four or five years ago by an undercover FBI agent posing as a businessman with mob connections, the agent chose a fancy Bay Area restaurant. Chow, testifying this week at his racketeering trial in San Francisco federal court, said he told his companion a cheaper eatery would be fine but was quickly advised that cost was no object. Unable to read or write, he looked at the menu and saw $42 next to a listing for steak, so he ordered a 16-ounce fillet. When the bill came back, he learned that it was $42 an ounce,