The Nation - News from July 29, 1985
A Defense Department document showed that, of about 400 incidents of potential contract fraud uncovered by Pentagon auditors in the last five years, only 11 cases have led to prosecutions. Auditors have complained that “the detecting and reporting of fraud is a waste of time” because of the lack of prosecution, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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