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...definition would seem wide enough to qualify one top Republican for this year's award: Maurice H. Stans. As Nixon's chief fund raiser and the finance chairman for the Committee for the Re-Election of President Nixon, Stans is now under fire from the GAO, the very office that sent out the memo on the award. It has found eleven possible violations of law in the C.R.P.'s handling of campaign contributions. Although it is up to the Justice Department to act on the GAO charges, it is apparent that the intertwined scandals of the C.R.P...
...June had now grown legally as well as politically serious. The General Accounting Office, an independent auditing arm of Congress, charged that there were "apparent and possible violations" of law by Nixon's Re-Election Committee and sent its findings to the Justice Department for potential prosecution. The GAO claimed that up to $350,000 in funds were involved. The basic charge was that neither the receipt of these funds nor their disposition was properly recorded and reported by the committee as required by the Federal Election Campaign Act that went into effect on April...
While the GAO report did not concern itself with who might have directed the political espionage at the Watergate, it did confirm earlier accounts that $114,000 of the unreported funds had wound up in the Miami bank account of Bernard Barker, a former CIA agent arrested with four other men at the Watergate. Of this amount, $89,000 had reached Barker by a circuitous route: from some Texas contributors identified as Democrats, to a Mexican intermediary, back to Texas, then to the Re-Election Committee and on to Barker. The other $25,000 was given by Andreas to Dahlberg...
...GAO claim is that for a time, all of the money, plus another $136,000 that did not wind up in Barker's hands, was kept in a safe in Stans' secretary's office. GAO charges specifically that the Re-Election Committee had failed to "keep and maintain adequate books and records" on this total of $350,000. A phony notation on a deposit slip, falsely indicating that the money was left over from the 1968 campaign, was used in later depositing the $350,000 in a Washington bank, the report said. Other investigators believe that...
...Bacon wage fixing had boosted costs by 15% for public housing and military-family housing in New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Virginia. All of the increase was unjustified, the agency charged, because lower wage rates prevailed for comparable private construction in the same areas. In two cases, said the GAO, the Labor Department flouted the law by prescribing commercial pay scales that it knew were higher than those prevailing at similar residential work near by. One reason that the law has been administered clumsily is that the Labor Department issues some 25,000 wage determinations a year but has only...