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...hunt down stories about the President through various means, including private detectives. The possibility that the tax-exempt money was misused--which could jeopardize the tax-exempt status of the Spectator--was apparently troubling to the magazine's longtime publisher, Ronald E. Burr. Last year he demanded an audit by an outside accounting firm. In October, Burr was abruptly fired by Spectator editor in chief R. Emmett Tyrrell. Now the magazine is finishing up an "internal investigation" of the funds. It's headed by Theodore Olson, a Spectator board member, Starr's former law partner and Hale's onetime attorney...
WASHINGTON: Both sides in the war between Ken Starr and the Clinton administration got a heap of ammunition Wednesday. First, a General Accounting Office audit of the prosecutor's Whitewater probe shows Starr spending $30 million in taxpayer dollars over four years. That makes Starr's the most spendthrift of the six independent counsel probes now under way, and means his probe is nearing the $40 million cost of the most expensive independent counsel probe ever conducted, Lawrence Walsh's Iran-Contra investigation...
Undeterred but under pressure, the ladies went to Price Waterhouse for an audit and discovered that their actual return was a sickly 9.1%--far less, according to Lipper Analytical Services, than the Standard & Poor's 500 average annual return of 14.9% or even the average general-stock-fund return of 12.6% during that same period. Updated through 1997, the audit shows that the ladies have picked up some slack, earning an average annual return of 15.3%. But that still lags the comparable S&P 500 figure of 17.2%, though it's better than the average stock-fund gain...
...think that legendary $640 toilet seat back in the ?80s would have taught the Pentagon to be smart shoppers. Not so, according to a Pentagon audit released today, which revealed that in the last two years the military had paid $76 for a 57-cent screw, $714 for a $47 electrical bell, and more...
...members discussed the possibility of an electronic survey or only conducting surveys for the classrooms that the audit deems problematic...