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Congressional critics blasted Stanford University earlier this year after reports that the top-ranked school had charged taxpayers for floral arrangements and upkeep on a yacht. Several months later, under pressure from a General Accounting Office (GAO) investigation, Harvard publicly announced that it was withdrawing $500,000 in questionable charges from this year's request for federal reimbursements...
...General Accounting Office (GAO) has wrapped up its inquiry at Stanford and is now conducting investigations at Harvard, MIT and the University of California at Berkeley. HHS is auditing over 20 schools and the Navy is performing audits at over 40 schools...
...will be drafting a new version of Circular A-21--the all-encompassing set of regulations defining appropriate indirect cost billing--that will attempt to further restrict overhead reimbursements in light of the findings of the GAO...
...House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by U.S. Rep. John D. Dingell (D--Mich.), commissioned the GAO to investigate Harvard and is currently beginning preliminary work for a similar investigation...
...GAO investigator Joseph Cohen, who is in charge of the Harvard effort, refused to comment on any specific developments in the inquiry...