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Show Crackdown Promised The Salt Lake Tribune. Saturday, June 2t. GSA Official Tells Panel Of Agency Corruption - WASHINGTON (L'PD Jay Solomon. head of the General Service Administration, said Friday corruption and fraud still permeate his agency and announced he will crack down on those voiced in Solomon told a Senate subcom- intend mittee, to deal harshly with employees 1 who are involved in corrupt pracwill tices and 1 also take action against those who permit Mr. Solomon cither fraud or inefficiency. If our investigations don't stop bringing in case after case of malfeasance, then more changes will have to be made The GSA is the caretaker agency, acquiring, leasing, maintaining and equipping buildings and properties for the federal government. Solomon, who has been in office 15 months, faced the subcommittee the named by day after Vincent R. Alto him to investigate the agencys probtestified that GSA employees lems cheated the government through a wide variety of criminal schemes. $86 Million in Thefts Alto, a former prosecutor, said GSA employees are stealing more than $86 million for themselves and the private companies that deal with GSA and that the total soars to $100 million when negligence is included. At the outset of Fridays hearing, subcommittee chairman Lawton said the question has Chiles, been raised what does major system acquisition policies have to do with larceny. The answer is pretty simple, he said. You caimot have the degree of corruption and waste outlined by GSAs new inspector general yesterday (Thursday i, where you are talking about at least 500 people, a half a battalion of crooks who are stealing millions of dollars without having a lot of problems with the management of the agency " Solomon said it became obvious to him some months after he took office that Not only did corruption exist in both the Public Buildings Service and the Federal Supply Service, but also that sloppy practices and procedures were commonplace within the agency These gave opportunity to fraudulent activity Election Panel Files Suit Against Reagan Camp - WASHINGTON HTb Charging Ronald Reagan's campaign committee gave insufficient data on almost half his major contributors in 1976. the Federal Election Commission Friday filed suit seeking $5, boo damages Incomplete information was filed on about 6,500 contributors, 40 percent of those who gave Reagan more than $100, the FEC suit said. The suit, filed in U S. District Court, said the committee did not put forth its "best efforts" to obtain from those contributors iheir occupation and place ol business, as required by law A full year of negotiations aimed at staving off legal actum collapsed when the FEC and the committee could not agree on the missing information Reagan, who lost the 19,6 GOP presidential nomination to Gerald Ford, claimed his committee tried its best to obtain and report the d ata Come to Us Pj for all your Gardening Problems months. Solomon conceded, "It is very dear to me that we have significant problems within GSA " re happy to be helpful!! '"'i.sr.,. CERTIFIED NURSERYMEN v Chevron Sen. Jake Garn, he supported the Jf Ortho nomination of the Helsinki Watch groups to receive the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize in a move To encourage international recognition of human rights. 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