Topeka ? David Wittig brought a Wall Street lifestyle that didn’t sell in Kansas.

The former chief of Westar Energy Inc. was denounced in a report commissioned by the company for using Westar’s corporate jets for vacations and spending millions to build an office suite.

While the company was laying off hundreds of employees and cutting dividends to stockholders, Wittig built a $6.6 million executive suite at Westar headquarters in Topeka.

“Extravagant and insensitive,” the investigative report said of the opulent digs.

The suite is 25,000 square feet, with Wittig’s former office measuring 1,000 square feet.

Wittig’s former office includes a $29,000 custom-built wall television unit, a large bathroom, shower and dressing area and two Brown-Saltzman cubist lamps, valued at $1,400.

As the suite was being built, Wittig kept it off limits to Westar employees, placed additional security and conducted board meetings at the company’s airplane hangar, the report said.

General contractor for the office makeover was Gene Fritzel Construction Co. of Lawrence, the same company that did a costly remodeling of Wittig’s Topeka mansion.

Wittig paid for the office out of a $10 million fund he had access to that was supposed to be used for plant repairs.

Wittig’s office is now empty.

New Westar chief executive Jim Haines Jr. refuses to use the office, preferring one of the smaller offices in the executive suite.

When Wittig wasn’t in the office, he frequently was jetting around the world in one of Westar’s corporate jets, the report said.

He took the company jet on vacations and trips to see Kansas University basketball games, the report said.

Wittig violated federal tax law by not reporting the value of the trips as income, according to the report. He also falsified flight logs, saying he was on business when the flights really were pleasure trips. Wittig also stopped company auditors when they tried to review the use of the company planes, the report concluded.