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...investigations of the GSA began to heat up when a Washington-area contractor, Robert Lowry, agreed to testify about fraud in return for immunity from prosecution. He told Chiles' subcommittee last month how GSA building managers authorized payments for millions of dollars of maintenance work that was never performed in exchange for cash payoffs, free vacations and contractor supplied prostitutes. Lowry told investigators of a contract for painting 40 miles of pipes inside the walls of a Veterans Administration building in Washington. Said he: "To find the pipes, you would have to take the plaster walls down...
...fact, the court sounded a note of judicial restraint in another affirmative-action decision last week, when it dealt with a suit brought by California contractors seeking to overturn a requirement of the federal Public Works Employment Act of 1977 that 10% of federal public works grants go to minority contractors. The court returned the case to Los Angeles District Judge A. Andrew Hauk -who had declared the minority contractor set-aside unconstitutional-but it made no ruling on the merits of the case. It suggested only that the California suit may be moot; since all federal contracts...
...prohibits "unreasonable searches" of private property. The inspector, Barlow insisted, needed a search warrant to inspect his place of business. After Barlow ignored a federal judge's order to allow the inspector in, the Government went back to court, and a three-judge federal panel agreed with the contractor. Then the Government appealed, and last week the Supreme Court, in a 5-to-3 decision, ruled that Barlow, a John Birch Society Democrat, was legally right: employers can bar OSHA inspectors who do not have search warrants...
Complaints are not ordinarily aimed directly at Sadat but at prominent people close to him. Among the prime targets is Osman Ahmed Osman, the millionaire contractor whose son Mahmud is married to Sadat's daughter Jihan. Osman has a brilliant record as a builder-he was chief contractor for the Aswan High Dam, and did much of the reconstruction of the ruined Suez Canal zone-but his vast wealth and his influence over Sadat invite attacks by the opposition, mainly on corruption charges. Because Osman is his closest friend and adviser, Sadat knows that these attacks are really aimed...
...Government-aided construction projects, the Davis-Bacon Act requires that the job go not to the lowest bidder but to the contractor who agrees to pay the "prevailing" wages of the region, often meaning the highest union scales paid in the nearest big city. "So in rural Maine they'll use the wage scales of Boston, and in Appalachia they'll use the wage scales of Pittsburgh," says Weidenbaum. "But those wages are so far above the standards in Appalachia that frequently Appalachia firms don't bid for the jobs. They can't pay their workers...