Word: transferals
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Though Tickel has been under investigation since 1977, he was assigned to sensitive and classified bureau cases until his transfer last summer to the FBI's training school in Quantico, Va., as an instructor. FBI officials refuse to discuss the case or the seemingly belated reassignment of Tickel. Says one: "The director fired him. That...
...charges, for example, that Harvard regularly and improperly used the extra funds of one grant to pay for the cost overruns of another; had illegally certified salary costs to one project, and then charged it to another project; and had often made a cost transfer "without appropriate explanations or documentation...
...thinks "that if the transfer process was late or was not properly documented that the charge should be disallowed." Financial Vice-President Thomas O'Brien says to explain the government attitude...
...puts it this way: A cost transfer is made between two grants. A federal auditor then immediately charges an impropriety. But, Scott adds, in most cases the auditor didn't look far enough...
...first year ends on one date, but sometimes official approval for the next year is not won for a few months. The funding for the new grant is then retroactive to the end of the last fiscal year, but the University has in the meanwhile had to transfer funds temporarily to cover the costs of the project. These are the sort of cases. Scott says, where the feds don't look "far enough" to see what actually happened...