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Investigators found that GSA's self-service stores, where federal workers obtain office supplies, were robbed of goods worth millions of dollars. One employee walked away with $262,000 worth of Polaroid film over a two-week period. Some store managers placed bogus orders with suppliers, paid them for the undelivered goods and pocketed kickbacks of 40% or more...
Subsequently, GSA investigators estimated that the agency annually loses $66 million because of corruption and an additional $100 million through mismanagement, negligence and waste. Examples...
...Jersey office-furniture company has sold the GSA many million dollars worth of desks, filing cabinets and metal tables. Investigators suspect that Government equipment specifications were designed expressly for the manufacturer...
...remodeling job in Boston's John F. Kennedy Federal Building included $40,000 for a teak-paneled HEW office. According to Howard Davia, the GSA's director of audits, "In essence, all the files and vouchers and statements of work done were phony...
...payment voucher showed that a contractor applied two coats of paint to 63,400 sq. ft. of stairwells in the GSA's Washington headquarters, even though the area involved measured only 35,000 sq. ft. at best and was never actually painted. Six weeks later the contractor billed the GSA for applying 257,000 sq. ft. of plaster to the same stairwells. Reports TIME Correspondent Gregory Wierzynski: "The staircase still looks grimy...