Word: audits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consider donations to charity, another honorable activity, which the IRS has been investigating in Southern California. Here, too, the results are dismaying. In an audit of 4,000 California returns that showed large charitable contributions, the vast majority of those filing the returns were found to be cheating. On average, they owed additional taxes of $5,800. "Many of these people report that they are giving over half their income to the church," says IRS District Director William H. Connett. "But these are often mail-order ministries, organized not for religious reasons but for tax evasion...
...center of the congressional investigations is the $1.6 billion Superfund program, created by Congress three years ago to clean up the nation's most dangerous toxic-waste dumps. On Friday, House leaders were given a new EPA audit showing that the agency cannot account for $53.6 million, almost one-third of the 1982 appropriation for the Superfund. "At best, EPA officials have been sloppy and incompetent," said Democratic Representative James Scheuer...
When U.A.B. announced in January that its 1982 losses were only $2.3 million, FDIC officials demanded that the bank issue a new report showing higher losses; U.A.B. 's board refused. Last week Adams determined from his own audit that the bank was in solvent. On its last day of business, between $17 million and $25 million in deposits were withdrawn in a run on the U.A.B. (The other 28 banks controlled by the brothers were judged to be solvent. Nevertheless, worried customers have with drawn several million dollars from C.H.'s Southern Industrial Banking Corp...
...fellowship and notified Medical School Dean Daniel Tosteson. But Braunwald accepted Darsee's plea that this was his sole offense. Unwilling to destroy the career of what he called "an apparently brilliant researcher," Braunwald did not inform NIH officials. Instead, he and Kloner conducted their own audit of Darsee's work and supervised him closely during the next few months. They uncovered no evidence of further misconduct...
...leaders also announced at a meeting of mission holders in San Francisco last October that the technology center would audit the financial records of each mission, charging $15,000 a day for the procedure, and that all franchise holders would be put on the cans for a security check. As discipline tightened, even Hubbard's daughter Diana, 25, was ordered to pull weeds in 120° heat at a rehabilitation project in the California desert...