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...page report issued by the Labor Department, and a later preliminary state audit investigation, pinned the blame for the IBES's bad performance mostly on poor management. The findings read like a horror story in bland bureaucratic prose: employees confused about their responsibilities and shifted from job to job so frequently that they never learned their jobs; a near absence of planning; managers unaware of how many staffers they could hire; offices that were unclean and unsafe; chronic shortages of supplies; employees "indulging in frequent coffee breaks, extended lunch periods and early departures." Worst of all, the state study...
Most people on the rolls deserve welfare; many others do not, even by New York's generous standards. Though the number of ineligibles has been reduced, they still amount to 8% of the total number of recipients, according to the city's conservative estimate. A state audit revealed that the city had squandered $19 million because of tardiness in removing ineligibles and inaccurate recording of outside
...indeed audit Ramparts' taxes, though that did not stop the magazine from disclosing that the CIA had financed and infiltrated activities of the National Students Association...
Italian Custom. According to a 1972 audit by Exxon, a number of bookkeeping stratagems were used to hide the payments. One was to fill out vouchers for goods that were never received. Monroe said Exxon executives were persuaded to keep the payments secret by Cazzaniga, who reported that that was the custom in Italy. Pointing out that camouflaging the payments also enabled the company to deduct them from its Italian income taxes, Subcommittee Chairman Frank Church of Idaho charged that Exxon was practicing "a fraud on the Italian government." Moreover, subcommittee experts reckon that the favorable legislation resulting from...
Rodent Enriched. The Department of Agriculture has much to answer for. According to a report written by the department's Office of Audit in 1973 and made public last week, the department's Grain Division once held back a plan to determine uniformity in export shiploads because of the objections of a single trade organization, whose members included large exporting companies. In addition, the report said grain inspectors often failed to notify the Food and Drug Administration of "deleterious substances" in grain destined for human consumption. Among them: poisonous mercury-treated kernels, rodent excreta and insect-damaged kernels...