Word: gao
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them on Capitol Hill and [part of] their job is to report back not only normal information but also the eating and drinking habits of everybody up there. We had a hard time cracking the General Accounting Office, but now the Navy has a commander at the GAO to keep it informed." Said another naval officer: "We used to handle cable traffic for the State Department, and we weren't above picking off a few messages...
...homes at Key Biscayne, Fla., and San Clemente, Calif. Last week the General Accounting Office, the congressional watchdog agency that monitors spending, charged that some of the $1.4 million spent at the two residences increased the value of the property but did little to protect the President. GAO officials maintain that Nixon should personally have borne at least part of the nearly $24,000 for landscape maintenance, $19,300 for building a private railroad crossing and cabana, $8,400 for property surveys, $10,600 for driveway paving and $3,800 for a new sewer line...
...Office, the $1 billion sale of U.S. grain to the Soviet Union last fall was by far the biggest cause in lifting the price of American wheat by 100%, to $3 a bushel, and led to increases in the cost of flour and bread. On top of that, the GAO reports, the Agriculture Department made things worse by paying $300 million in subsidies to keep the selling price to the Russians unrealistically...
...death came only five days after the General Accounting Office disclosed that Mills had received a 1971 contribution of $25,000 from the Finance Committee to Re-Elect the President. The money, according to the GAO, was part of an unreported $900,000 in cash spent by the Nixon campaign committee before the April 1972 mandatory disclosure date. According to Maryland law, all congressional campaign contributions must be reported to the state's board of elections, and any donation of more than $2,500 from a single source is illegal. Mills' office never reported the contribution. A prosecution...
...this fund. It contended there were "apparent" violations of law and, since it has no enforcement powers, turned its findings over to the Justice Department. There the case rests?and presumably will until after Nov. 7. The FBI has not even been asked to begin an investigation of the GAO contentions?a first step before federal prosecution...