Word: warren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sooner or later, every dollar spent by the U.S. Government must pass the watchful eye of ex-Congressman Lindsay Carter Warren. As the $12,000-a-year Comptroller General of the U.S., Warren has frequently barked an alarm at war contract settlements; he believes that "everybody and his brother were out to get the Government during the lush war years." Last week, Watchdog Warren showed some real bite. In a report to Congress on war contract settlements, he accused federal agencies of "improper payment of many millions of dollars of public funds through fraud, collusion, ignorance, inadvertence or overliberality...
...Warren had found "excessive" payments of $11.5 million in 1,114 cases (12.1%) out of 9,195 contract settlements audited. This was only "a small sampling," and he could not "hazard a guess as to the entire extent of fraud and overpayment" in some $300 billion of war contracts. Even so, it was "a shocking situation." In some instances, said Warren, 20% of the contract price had been 'kicked back" to Government officials, 'either directly, through their relatives, or through dummy corporations" owned by the Government officials. Other sample cases...
...Warren pinned most of the blame for overpayments on the Contract Settlement Act of 1944, which permitted Government agencies to settle contracts in full before final auditing by Warren's office. He had long advocated part payments, up to 75%, before final auditing. As it was, Warren had recovered $474,717 in "voluntary" rebates from overpaid contractors. More might have been recovered, he said, if Government contract agencies had rot "devoted their efforts to defending the excessive settlements." Last week, as Warren turned his evidence over to the Department of Justice for prosecution, Congress ordered an investigation...
Calm, determined Sheriff McCall put in a hurry call to Governor Fuller Warren that brought 78 National Guardsmen to the scene. Off and on for three days, small mobs, sprinkled now with strangers from other counties, cruised menacingly in cars, or shuffled through the small-town streets, but did no damage. Then, all of a sudden, they were roused again. A hundred shouting whites with rifles and pistols roared into tiny Mascotte in trucks, forced Guardsmen and police to withdraw and took over the community for the night...
Hard Work. In Denver, police reached the scene of the crime in time to arrest Warren McWilliams, who had worked so long and so hard trying to crack a safe that he finally fell asleep...