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- <title>
- Dec. 10, 1990: Maybe This Man Needs An Audit
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 10, 1990 What War Would Be Like
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 23
- Maybe This Man Needs an Audit
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- <body>
- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by David E. Thigpen
- </p>
- <p> IRS Commissioner Fred Goldberg is feeling some heat. A
- report by the House Government Operations Committee blasts the
- IRS for high-level misconduct and cover-ups. "Crooks auditing
- crooks," charges committee chairman John Conyers Jr. of
- Michigan. Even worse, a second report by a Goldberg-picked
- panel of outside experts concludes that the commissioner's
- solutions to the crisis are "narrow" and deal mostly with
- "symptoms rather than root causes." Specifically, the panel
- found that many IRS criminal-investigation agents are not
- supervised, nor are they adequately trained in ethics. The
- report was sent to Goldberg on Oct. 26, but it has not been
- released to Congress or the public. "I don't know why it's
- taking him so long," says a panel member. "We assumed he would
- release it within days."
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- </body>
- </article>
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