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...months had sought permission from his old friend Carter to return home to Georgia. Bell's wife gleefully told a friend in the Senate: "It's the best news I've had since coming to Washington." Griffin's proposed successor is his own choice: Deputy Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti...
...about eight weeks. But eight weeks passed, and the score was still zero. At the end of August, GSA investigators said that a packet of indictments would be handed down within a fortnight. A fortnight passed, but there still were no indictments. Last week Deputy Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti indicated to a Senate subcommittee on federal spending practices that the GSA probe had been stalled, and indictments could be delayed for another eight weeks...
Adding to the confusion are differing reports from investigators on the extent of corruption at the GSA. Alto has described it as potentially "the biggest money scandal in the history of the Federal Government." But Civiletti told Chiles' subcommittee last week, "We do not know from the evidence gathered to date just how far the wrongdoing extends or whether at any level corruption is pervasive." Still, a report to the subcommittee from Comptroller General Elmer Staats estimated that fraudulent practices by bureaucrats in the GSA and other agencies is costing the Government anywhere from $2.5 billion to $25 billion...
...investigation of the GSA in Boston is not as far along as the ones in Baltimore and Washington, Civiletti said...
...Civiletti told a Senate Governmental Affairs subcommittee yesterday the Carter administration has agreed to set up an interagency strike force to coordinate the various investigations...