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...subcommittee is also concerned that two federal energy officials became so frustrated by foot-dragging and the lack of support from their superiors that they complained publicly. A former auditor of the old Federal Energy Administration, Dale Kuehn, went public to describe how his memos suggesting that cases should be "prosecuted with dispatch" were habitually ignored. A DOE investigator, Joe McNeff, went to the subcommittee in June; he said he found in Houston "$1 billion worth of fraud, four auditors, no secretary and no support...
...simple farmer's daughter, one of ten children, and never went to college. But Melba Till Allen had big ambitions. She taught herself accounting and, after 13 years as a bookkeeper, was elected state auditor of Alabama in 1966. Voters were charmed by her beehive hairdo, ultrafeminine ways and strong Baptist principles. In office, she went so ferociously after state employees who padded their expense accounts and otherwise wasted public funds that she became known as "Melba Watching-the-Till Allen." She was enthusiastically re-elected in 1970 and four years later easily won election as state treasurer...
...Melba Allen also wanted to become rich, and according to testimony last week in a Montgomery courtroom, this ambition led to her undoing. While state auditor, she began dabbling in her own business on the side, taking out 26 bank loans, mostly to speculate in land sales and help her husband Marvin expand his trucking business. Once installed as Alabama's $23,000-a-year treasurer, she quickly turned her new powers to personal use. Chief among them was authority over the cash in the state treasury, sometimes amounting to $550 million, which by law must be deposited...
...bill also recommends the commission consist of 11 members, one state senator elected by a majority of the Senate, one representative elected by the House, the attorney general or his designee, the state auditor or his designee and seven gubernatorial appointees. Only one of the governor's appointees may come from within the government; the remaining six which must include a registered architect, a member of the state bar, a certified public accountant, and a registered professional engineer, will be citizens who have not had contractual relations with the state for the last five years...
Thaddeus Buczko, state auditor since 1964, however, congratulated the bill's authors on the inclusion of county contracts. "I am particularly supportive of the fact that the commission will be empowered to look at all contracts, not only at the level of state government but also at county government." he said...