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...Student Association: a way to escape from a mad, straight world. The GSA provides fellowship, rap sessions and dances in Phillips Brooks House...
...Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. Finally, there is the Ed Brooke whose own personal finances are characterized by improprieties if not illegalities; and who has sponsored such incompetent (if not blatantly corrupt) men as former Federal District Judge Willie Davis, former U.S. Atty. James N. Gabriel and former GSA regional chief Albert Gammal for public office...
Alto told the subcommittee that the agency has been relying on a staff of only 74 investigators to police its 35,000 employees. The majority of them have no experience or training in fraud investigation. Much of their time is spent on discrimination complaints. Even so, GSA investigators are armed with handguns, of dubious use when dealing with white-collar crime. Said Subcommittee Chairman Lawton Chiles: "They should be required to carry a pencil and a calculator so they can tote...
...current probe has been further slowed by bickering among the federal investigators. GSA gumshoes grumble that the FBI is out to grab the glory with easy cases, while FBI agents grouse that leads provided by the GSA are not worth following up. In the meantime, grand juries in Baltimore and Washington are hearing evidence of GSA fraud, while cases pursued by Alto are nearing the grand jury stage in Dallas, Houston, New Orleans and Boston...
Adding to the confusion are differing reports from investigators on the extent of corruption at the GSA. Alto has described it as potentially "the biggest money scandal in the history of the Federal Government." But Civiletti told Chiles' subcommittee last week, "We do not know from the evidence gathered to date just how far the wrongdoing extends or whether at any level corruption is pervasive." Still, a report to the subcommittee from Comptroller General Elmer Staats estimated that fraudulent practices by bureaucrats in the GSA and other agencies is costing the Government anywhere from $2.5 billion to $25 billion...