Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LeClair told the council that the Massachusetts Inspector General has endorsed the notion of local ethics legislation...
...startling connection was disclosed last week by June Gibbs Brown, inspector general of the Defense Department, in hearings held by Ohio Democrat John Glenn, chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. Brown said the practice was designed to permit the Pentagon to avoid competitive bidding in hiring consultants, since this is not required of the Library. It also skirted a law requiring Government agencies to report how much they spend on consulting fees...
...additional $250 million in Pentagon contracts was laundered through the Department of Energy and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The Energy Department's inspector general, John Layton, said contracts at DOE were drawn so loosely that the department was forced to pay fully even when contractors defrauded the Government. Since January, 22 people, mostly defense contractors and consultants, have pleaded guilty to or been convicted of a variety of charges in the so-called Ill Wind investigation into procurement abuses...
...inspector general Paul Adams had repeatedly warned his boss, Secretary Samuel Pierce, about the problems and had been repeatedly ignored. Last week the Government Accounting Office reported that the losses in just one HUD program, the Federal Housing Administration, totaled $4.2 billion -- five - times the amount the Reagan Administration had conceded. That bill lands on top of the $300 billion or so needed to rescue the savings and loan industry -- another problem that Washington chose to overlook while the losses mounted...
Wilson responded that he had been asked to meet with the inspector general, but did not do so. Asked to explain why he did not meet with the inspector general, Wilson refused to answer...