The State Department has no idea what happened to $6 billion used to pay its contractors.
In a special “management alert”
made public Thursday, the State Department’s Inspector General Steve
Linick warned “significant financial risk and a lack of internal control
at the department has led to billions of unaccounted dollars over the
last six years.
The alert was just the latest example of the federal government’s continued struggle with oversight over its outside contractors.
The
lack of oversight “exposes the department to significant financial
risk,” the auditor said. “It creates conditions conducive to fraud, as
corrupt individuals may attempt to conceal evidence of illicit behavior
by omitting key documents from the contract file. It impairs the ability
of the Department to take effective and timely action to protect its
interests, and, in tum, those of taxpayers.”
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