CHAPTER 5 ________________________________Minimizing Risk to Recovery: Avoiding Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in Federal Recovery Project Spending
Robert Shea and Philip Kangas
Remember Hurricane Katrina? Devastated communities needed federal assistance immediately. The U.S. Congress and the Bush administration pushed federal disaster agencies to quickly spend a lot of money and get recovery activity on the ground. Taxpayers, however, needed to know that the government was spending public dollars effectively and with minimal waste, fraud, and abuse. At the time, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) did what it could to balance these competing goals, but with scant success.1 Unfortunately, massive waste occurred. 2
The current economic crisis ...
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