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AFMD-93-46R 1 (1992-12-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackeu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A ) United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Accounting and Financial Management Division B-250044 December 22, 1992 The Honorable Robert J. Dole 148193 Republican Leader U.S. Senate Dear Senator Dole: Your office requested certain information relating to our recent audit of independent counsels.' Specifically, your office requested information on (1) the amount of expenditures by Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh that we found to be inconsistent with laws and regulations and (2) whether Mr. Walsh had requested a waiver of any reimbursements related to those expenditures. As we stated in our report, we were unable to verify the accuracy and completeness of independent counsel expenditures because of serious internal control weaknesses at offices of independent counsel and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts which performs the disbursing and accounting functions for independent counsels. We found that some expenditures were inconsistent with laws and regulations. Some of the instances we identified may have been attributable to an oversight or ambiguities in the independent counsel law and a lack of comprehensive guidance to help independent counsels understand and follow operational and administrative legal requirements. Other instances were caused by the independent counsels relying on erroneous advice from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. In our report, we identified overpayments for lodging and meals for Mr. Walsh ranging between approximately $44,000 and approximately $78,000 (see page 17 of our report). We also identified overpayments for employees of Mr. Walsh of approximately $5,000 for lodging and meals (page 17) and approximately $3,700 for relocation expenses (page 18). 'Financial Audit: Expenditures by Nine Independent Counsels (GAO/AFMD-93-1, October 9, 1992). GAO/AFMD-93-46R O8Oct/ ) 4,39 3

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