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...masterminded a well-funded campaign to buy influence from some of the President's advisers. Vesco's purpose: to get them to call off the Justice Department's attempt to extradite him from Costa Rica, where he had lived in exile for six years to escape prosecution for fraud. But as more details emerged last week, one critical thing was missing: any evidence that the President or his aides had done anything for Vesco or even listened to his proposals...
...memo as false. Said he: "I never pressured anybody. There was no effort by me to drive anybody out of any agency at any time." With the Carter Administration pressing for investigators to net some "bigger fish," and Republicans clamoring for an independent probe of the growing fraud and mismanagement scandal, the charges are certain to be thoroughly aired in the next round of Senate hearings on the GSA shenanigans that opens this week...
DIED. George Bliss, 60, award-winning investigative reporter for the Chicago Tribune; by his own hand, after apparently shooting and killing his wife; in Oak Lawn, Ill. A series on a scandal-infested municipal sanitary district won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1962; subsequently, he headed inquiries into election fraud and federal housing programs that garnered his paper two more Pulitzers. According to Tribune Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick, Bliss was a "perfectionist who agonized over details and in effect became a victim of his own intense devotion to journalism...
...Fraud and white-collar crimes against he government are not limited to the GSA. Elmer B. Staats, comptroller general of the GSA, said at the subcommittee hearing...
...knows the magnitude of fraud against the government," Staats said, estimating that illegal activities could cost taxpayers between $2.5 and $25 billion a year...