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...their late 20s and look toward the FBI as a second career. Few have previous law-enforcement experience. Although the agency once tried to recruit lawyers, Pledger says the emphasis now is on hiring accountants. Their main mission: to track the drug trade. "We use financial investigative techniques to audit books and seize assets," says Pledger. "It's the best way to put the dopers behind bars...
...another flawed bureaucracy is no surprise. When accountants find time for lunch they speak of little else. Whiffs of scandal occasionally become gusts, like a former IRS assistant commissioner who could not adequately explain why he charged the agency for airfare to visit his girlfriend. Burnham's audit includes abuses and inefficiencies that date back more than 50 years. Recent probes by the General Accounting Office have discovered broad areas of error and mismanagement. A study covering 1987, notes Burnham, concluded that the IRS failed to keep orderly accounts of its $1 trillion annual collections. For the same year...
...Perhaps most would not expect a group of distinguished adults to be so easily impressed, but that's exactly what happened at a special lunch Friday with Harvard's Institute of Politics fellows and a handful of undergraduates. The undergraduates offered a few course suggestions for the fellows to audit, but all the fellows could talk about was hearing Dershowitz and Gould speak...
...school boards is also certain to come under scrutiny. When Fernandez's predecessor, Richard Green, died last May, a third of the 32 district boards were under investigation for charges ranging from selling jobs to drug dealing. Fernandez wants more authority over these bodies, including the power to audit their books...
...part of its required audit of the Reagans' taxes during their White House years, the IRS's Los Angeles field office is considering information provided by M. Chris Blazakis, former executive vice president for James Galanos, one of the designers who provided Mrs. Reagan dresses on a need-to-wear basis. Under the tax laws, a celebrity receives income for high-visibility use of a product in an amount equal to the value of that product. The defense that some of the dresses were loans, not gifts, or that they are no longer worth very much once they have been...