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...bounced back to the front pages with a new twist -- a charge by Calvert and a friend, city employee Michael Thomas, 32, that a special secret police unit had been digging into Calvert's private life. After Thomas claimed that a police inspector questioned him about Calvert's love life, he was transferred to a new assignment -- at the sewer plant. Says Thomas: "That's where they find body parts." Calvert, who left Detroit to become head of the department of public works in Fontana, Calif., in January, filed her formal complaint with the Wayne County prosecutor's office, which...
...declared, "President Reagan asked me to reduce the size and cost of Government and at the same time try to take care of the most needy. I think I did that very well." The cynicism of that boast has become glaringly evident. Since the release of a HUD inspector general's report in April, the agency has become the target of inquiry by two congressional committees into charges of influence peddling. The Justice Department has launched a nationwide probe into the possible theft of as much as $100 million in HUD funds. Says Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos of California, chairman...
...repair funds, and some cops have had to buy their own. There is no money to hire recruits, and the average age of the force is up to a doddering 46 1/2 years. "We just don't have the money and the personnel to keep the peace," sighs Inspector Lawrence Brewer, a veteran of nearly 22 years in the department. "There are guys literally jumping on our car hoods to sell us crack, but there's no money to pay informants or make buys. We have the highest homicide rate in the state, and people come across from Missouri...
Another disturbing incident involves Frank Santella, formerly an assistant regional inspector in the IRS's Chicago office. In 1984 Santella's three deputies complained to Joseph Jech, the IRS's Midwest regional inspector, that their boss had released confidential tax data to a mob-linked company in exchange for illegal gifts such as theater tickets and expensive dinners. One year later, their charges ignored, the whistle-blowers sought help from IRS officials in Washington. As a result, Santella received a twelve-day suspension without pay -- whereupon a group of senior IRS officials chipped in to reimburse...
...That, it seems, was the attitude of some officials who had failed to persuade Congress to stop spending some $200 million a year on fixing up run-down apartments and making them available to the poor with the help of federal rent subsidies. A report by Paul Adams, inspector general of Housing and Urban Development, suggests that the most effective way to get a housing project approved under President Reagan's HUD Secretary, Samuel Pierce, was for the developer to hire a prominent Republican as a "consultant" and pay him a substantial...