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WASHINGTON--Grand juries could hand down the first indictments from two investigations of fraud within the General Services Administration (GSA) in about eight weeks, Deputy Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti said yesterday...
...Baltimore grand jury is looking into alleged fraud at GSA self-service stores and in the use of government credit cards...
...investigation of the GSA in Boston is not as far along as the ones in Baltimore and Washington, Civiletti said...
Aside from outright illegality, the GSA, long a haven for lackluster patronage employees, suffers from inefficiency and careless shopping habits. Notes one Government insider: "The GSA operates on a service concept-if you don't like your wooden desk, they'll get you a marble one. Who cares? Nobody has to pay." The Washington Post revealed that the GSA was paying $56.50 for a General Electric cassette tape recorder that was on sale to the public for $46.90 at a Washington discount retailer. The GSA also paid $20.70 for a Texas Instruments pocket calculator that was priced...
Bureaucracy, too, has caused problems. Recalls Walter Kallaur, 33, a Harvard-educated financial whiz who served as the GSA's Assistant Administrator before Solomon named him last month as the new chief of Region 3: "A directive went out that federal buildings should be located in downtown areas as part of the Administration's urban policy. We actually had to stop a plan to move a boat-repair shop from the waterfront to the downtown area and have the boats carted to the new location...