Word: gao
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gonna call when someone's ripping off the Government? Fraud Busters! The 24-hour, toll-free line sponsored by the General Accounting Office (GAO) is designed to encourage tipsters to turn in workers, contractors and benefit recipients suspected of bilking the Federal Government. Since it opened in 1979, says a new GAO report, the hot line has handled 53,000 calls; 1,110 complaints have been substantiated, resulting in jail sentences, fines, reprimands and loss of Government contracts. Says Gary Carbone, director of the hot line: "The phones have been ringing off the hook...
...officials to a Social Security field supervisor who not only attended college on Government time but punished subordinates who refused to type his term papers during working hours. Another informed on the Defense Department, which was spending $1,245 on a rotating counter that cost only $124.50 commercially. The GAO has spent $3.4 million to operate the hot line over the past five years, and has identified about $20 million in misspent funds and projected savings of an additional $24 million. The Government offers no rewards. Says Carbone: "People just don't like to see their tax dollars abused...
...ruling by the General Accounting Office (GAO) marked an important step in resolving year-old charges that the National Institute of Education (NIE) played favorites by awarding the money to Harvard over Bank St. College of New York...
...squashing Bank St.'s complaints, the GAO ruled that the regulations governing the competition were matters of internal policy guidance--not law--and hence not grounds for disallowing the contract. Bank St. has vowed to appeal, but time rolls on and Harvard's new center will soon move into its second year of operation...
...squashing Bank St.'s complaints, the GAO ruled that the regulations governing the competition were matters of internal policy guidance--not law--and hence not grounds for disallowing the contract. Bank St. has vowed to appeal, but time rolls on and Harvard's new center will soon move into its second year of operation...