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...home free. The loser will surely challenge the decision in court. Once members of one campaign get the money, though, it's pretty much theirs to spend as they see fit. While the FEC requires that the money be spent on campaign-related expenditures (and will conduct an audit after the election), the pols have a lot of latitude. "They're not going to try to cogitate for the campaign what is and isn't a legitimate expense," says Ken Gross, a Washington attorney who practices election...
...addictively mean Fametracker www.fametracker.com)--"The Farmer's Almanac of Celebrity Worth"--is dedicated to exposing the overexposed and meting out punishment for hubris. Its signature feature, the "Fame Audit," dissects superstars' careers and publicity binges with surgical detail. On Ben Affleck: "[He] has had a Counting Crows kind of career--too much, too fast, too soon. This isn't his fault, but it is his problem." Each audit tots the star's assets and liabilities (Affleck's: "Easygoing, cocksure charm"/"Consistently refers to his acting as 'the work'") and judges the celeb's "actual" and "deserved" level of fame...
...Fametracker disses the famous, they stay dissed. Yet its nastiness is informed by a genuine love of show biz. "If we thought everything was crap," says editor Tara Ariano, "we wouldn't go see four movies a week." Fametracker simply wants justice: "Do you know," says Giancarlo Esposito's audit, "how many underappreciated, underrecognized and underutilized actors--like Giancarlo Esposito--could be made famous simply by stripping Whoopi Goldberg of her fame and dispensing it to the deserving?" Preach...
...firm, notes that the commission intends to use credit-card billing addresses in chasing tax revenues. That, he observes, is likely to run afoul of credit-card companies that want no part in releasing information for tax purposes. Nor is it at all clear how European tax authorities could audit the flow of international e-commerce or sanction those that don't levy...
Then tales of financial abuse began to roll in. A state audit found a clerk in the department of children's services had been taking kickbacks to allow ineligible kids into a state-financed day-care program for abused and neglected children. Other audits found four centers that had misused thousands of dollars in state funds and another that had received federal dollars for 8,184 breakfasts and 5,208 snacks that children never received. (One center is appealing its audit.) Investigations by the Memphis Commercial Appeal found still other day-care centers paying their executives six figures while paying...