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GAO-08-1122R 1 (2008-09-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaankc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I GA 0 V 1 Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 September 24, 2008 The Honorable Robert C. Byrd Chairman The Honorable Thad Cochran Ranking Member Committee on Appropriations United States Senate The Honorable David R. Obey Chairman The Honorable Jerry Lewis Ranking Member Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives Subject: Audit of Special Counsel Expenditures for the 6 Months Ended March 31, 2008 This report presents the results of our audit of the expenditures of the Office of Special Counsel-Patrick J. Fitzgerald (OSC-Fitzgerald) for the 6 months ended March 31, 2008. The expenditures we audited were those made by the Department of Justice (DOJ) between October 1, 2007, and March 31, 2008, from the permanent, indefinite appropriation (fund) for OSC-Fitzgerald. DOJ determined that the appropriation established by Public Law 100-202' to fund expenditures by independent counsels appointed pursuant to the independent counsel law or other law is available to fund the expenditures of U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who was appointed as a special counsel within the Department of Justice by the then-Acting Attorney General.2 Under this law, we are required to perform semiannual financial reviews of expenditures from the fund and report our findings to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees. To satisfy this requirement, we audit each expenditure processed by DOJ to determine whether it was: properly authorized and approved, 'The permanent, indefinite appropriation was established by Pub. L. No. 100-202, § 101(a), title II, 101 Stat. 1329, 1329-9 (Dec. 22, 1987), 28 U.S.C. § 591 note. 2We reviewed the legal authority for the Department of Justice to use the permanent, indefinite appropriation to fund the expenditures relating to Special Counsel Fitzgerald's investigation and, in our opinion to the Chairmen of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, concluded that such use was not an illegal, improper, or unauthorized use of the appropriation. B-302582 (Sept. 30, 2004). GAO-08-1122R Special Counsel Page I

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