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...government began investigating Moon in 1975, shortly after Senator Robert Dole (R-Kansas) wrote his "Many Kansans" letter to Donald Alexander, then Commissioner of the IRS, Dole requested an audit of the Unification Church's finances, and questioned whether the Church was "based on a bona fide religion or mind-control techniques." Dole offered as evidence the claborately phrased hearsay, "Many Kansans have advised me that a major purpose of the organization is the accumulation of wealth and power and not the practice or furtherance of a religion...
That strategy seems to have worked. Last week the print industry's standard-setting Audit Bureau of Circulations announced that USA Today had a paid circulation of more than 1.1 million for the final quarter of 1983, making it the third biggest U.S. daily. The paper's first-quarter figures for 1984, not yet audited, show a jump to nearly 1.3 million, close to the New York Daily News (circ. 1.4 million) and on schedule with plans to outstrip the Wall Street Journal (circ. 2 million) by 1987. The audit silenced speculation that Gannett had padded its totals...
...books. Leaks about who got how much from the funds appeared; White House aides reportedly quarreled among themselves about how much to disclose and when Jacob Stein, the special prosecutor who is looking into the financial affairs of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, asked for a copy of an audit by the accounting firm of Arthur Andersen & Co., and the funds' lawyers finally released it last week. It pointed to no apparent illegalities. The audit, however, did present some intriguing bits of information that might inspire some new questions at any further Senate hearings on the nomination of Meese...
...audit disclosed that the stubs of five checks issued by the trust had been altered. The checks apparently were written initially to cover "moving expenses," but that notation was blacked out and changed to "consulting fees." The recipients: Meese, Deputy White House Chief of Staff Michael Deaver and Administration Personnel Director E. Pendleton James, who got $10,000 each; Interior Secretary William Clark, who got $9,942; and Helene von Damm, Ambassador to Austria, who received...
...report also took issue with the land-to-the-tiller program. After four years, said the audit, less than half of the eligible applicants (some 50,000 out of an estimated 117,000) have petitioned for purchase. Roughly one-third of those who did apply for their land failed to work it, "because they had been threatened, evicted or had disappeared...