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Thursday, September 30,1993 The Battalion Page 9 (/The Bmm ie Burton. ng a recent r. ros 6-3, ) first Press The Atlanta ssession of L West on eating the 3 as Tom lis 21st vie- avid Justice 'iriers in the mon Berry- ler to break es beat San sday after- -game win- ght season, s and nine f IYOUT .693-9393 ....693-9393 ....693-9393 294-9191 Meat, e. I RRYOUT I WANTED: poker player for gov't job, $35 an hour The Associated Press WASHINGTON - It's a tale of a government contract gone awry - temporary workers paid $35 an hour to make photocopies, then spending their time playing poker or napping on taxpayers' time. Some also vandalized office re strooms, according to an investiga tive report that paints a portrait of a government savings and loan cleanup project that on occasions resembled a late-night card party. "At times, 50 to 150 tempo raries were observed playing pok er during office hours," said the report by the Resolution Trust Corp.'s inspector general. "(Workers) would brag about sleeping on the job, taking 2- hour lunches, reading the news paper," the report said. ". . . Temporary employees were idle a lot of the time; one shift did nothing for eight hours." The lax oversight cost taxpay ers nearly $20 million in unneces sary costs: The contractor charged the government 67 cents per pho tocopy — four to six times pre vailing market rates, according to the report obtained by The Asso ciated Press. It criticizes the RTC, which is overseeing the S&L cleanup, for failing to properly monitor the temporaries hired by the Price Waterhouse accounting firm un der an RTC contract to audit Home Federal Savings Associa tion, a failed San Diego thrift. Som^ temporary workers were relatives of Price Waterhouse em ployees, the accounting firm has acknowledged. "RTC ignored contracting poli cies, procedures, internal controls, and overall costs," the inspector general concluded in the 37-page report to acting RTC head Roger Altman dated June 25. "In the future, if RTC's actions are not tempered with prudent planning, respect for existing policies and procedures, and seri ous attention to cost containment and accountability, RTC risks re peating the mistakes it made." RTC spokesman Steve Kat- sanos said the agency.already has Tubularmcm By Boomer Cardinale Fritch By Critch WeU, TVWcb, ai JcoeV you losY your ^VreaVc. of OYissm^ ball. tightened its management in re sponse to the report. "There were also some things that we found that we passed on to them for their investigation," he said. And in a prepared statement. Price Waterhouse defended its work as "done well, under extra ordinary difficult circumstances, at a fair price." "Price Waterhouse has been unfairly criticized and has some how become a victim of a much larger dispute concerning alleged deficiencies in the RTC's contract ing practices," the firm said. The Home Federal case has be come a symbol for critics who say the RTC's contracting procedures can deepen the problems of the S&L bailout, which is expected to cost taxpayers up to $300 billion. In addition to millions of dol lars in cost overruns, the report also cites disciplinary problems. "Temporaries were involved in vandalizing the break room and rest room facilities," it said. "Brief case searches were implemented to deter the theft of equipment...." The report said part of the problem was that the RTC had just three employees to oversee the work of a Price Waterhouse work force that reached 1,300 at its peak during the summer of 1992. 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