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...revelations at the GSA...
...eyes are baggy from lack of sleep, and his speech has quickened and become more salty. Last week, after 100 hectic days as special counsel for the Government Services Administration, former Federal Prosecutor Vincent Alto declared that the web of GSA mismanagement, employee theft and kickbacks from private contractors he has begun to uncover could well turn out to be "the biggest money scandal in the history of the Federal Government...
Under Alto's prodding, the investigation of the GSA, which employs 35,000 and spends $5 billion annually as the renter, builder and purchasing agent for the Federal Government, has spread to grand juries and U.S. Attorneys throughout the country, Investigators in Fort Worth, Dallas and El Paso documented $100,000 worth of fraudulent GSA overpayments after just two weeks of auditing last month. In Bayonne, N.J., investigators have discovered a construction contract that was first awarded to an extremely low bidder for just over $1 million and then was upped substantially in a suspicious change of project plans...
Much of the corruption has emerged in GSA's Region 3, which includes the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and Delaware-an area that accounts for 44% of GSA purchasing. Last week GSA Administrator Jay Solomon announced that 50 indictments are expected in a matter of weeks, most of them involving fraud in the repair and maintenance of federal buildings in Region 3. Eventually, more than 500 indictments are expected nationally...
...going to back Jay Solomon, chief of the scandal-plagued General Services Administration, in the dismissal of the agency's No. 2 Executive, Robert Griffin. An old friend of O'Neill's, Griffin was in no way implicated in the charges of theft and kickbacks at GSA that are currently being investigated. He simply did not get along with Solomon...