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...response to congressional attacks, IRS commissioner Fred Goldberg restructured the agency last January. While not punishing any of the implicated high-level IRS wrong doers, his plan calls for a presumably independent body, the Treasury Department's inspector general, to handle all high-level misconduct probes in the future. But the OSC is now investigating whether the inspector's office itself was involved in harassing the Chicago whistle blowers. Moreover, in August 1989, only weeks after Santella's behavior was denounced in congressional hearings, Treasury I.G. deputy Robert Cesca wrote a glowing letter recommending Santella for a top post with...
Hill must still contend with investigations by the General Accounting Office, two House Armed Services subcommittees and the Pentagon's Inspector General. The academy has also reconvened the Women Midshipmen Study Group to report on attitudes toward women at Annapolis. It will be the group's third investigation in four years...
...their leaders, they were being quickly and silently replaced by far more sophisticated and highly secretive business operations. Taylor's findings contradict the sanguine attitude of fifth-term Mayor Coleman Young and his political allies, who insist that the Motor City no longer has a serious gang problem. Says inspector Benny Napoleon, who monitors gang activity for the Detroit police: "We have nothing remotely resembling a large, well-organized gang...
...that the "technicians" conducting the tests often had little or no training. More than half the people screened at 71 sites had their fingers squeezed, or "milked," to draw blood. This is known to dilute the blood with other fluids and produce an artificially low cholesterol reading. Says HHS inspector general Richard Kusserow: "Sometimes these operations looked more like a sideshow at a carnival." When blood is drawn in a medical setting by trained personnel, such error is less likely...
...police station, we were interrogated by Inspector Morgan. He was a large man, with eyes alight with the desire to complete the lesson. We begged, pleaded, offered thinly veiled bribes and begged for a lawyer. He was completely unmoved. Opening a desk drawer, he ordered us to remove our belts, watches, jewellery and shoelaces. Grinning, he led us downstairs. As we descended into the murk, I glanced at Zac. It was dark, and I could only see his eyes, wide and fearful...