Word: gao
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Giving convicted racketeers longer prison sentences. The GAO study found that over a four-year period, 52% of the sentences imposed on organized criminals by federal courts involved fines but no imprisonment and only 20% were for jail terms of two years or more. One reason: many judges feel that the mobsters' crimes, except the killings of each other, are nonviolent and thus less serious than, say, mugging. When jailed, mobsters are generally model prisoners and, with their high-priced legal help, win paroles more easily than the average convict...
Champion: We never denied that. They asked for a summary of the files under the Freedom of Information Act. My understanding is that they did not get what the GAO (Government Accounting Office...
...former Harvard administrator suddenly find himself embroiled in arcane issues and possible scandals like the Freedom of Information Act, the GAO, the Inspector General's Office, the General Counsel's Office, and the Justice Department, not to mention the "Souza case"? And written up in the pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post and Newsweek? The story is long and more than a little twisted, but perhaps indicative of the slow road to the top of the American political heap...
Ford criticized the General Accounting Office (GAO) for releasing a report Tuesday that was critical of his handling of the "Mayaguez" crisis last year...
Ford called the report an example of "grandstand quarterbacking" on the part of the GAO. Carter, in response, did not criticize Ford's role in the crisis, but said Ford should have released information contained in the GAO report earlier...