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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
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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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If you believe you are eligible
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10/7
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CHEM 101
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CHEM 101
CH 7
CHEM 101
Test 2 review
5 p.m.
RHYS 201
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CH 7
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CHEM 101
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Test 2 review
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