So this bill will dramatically expand and intensify our efforts to end improper payments.
WHITEHOUSE: Signing the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act | The White House
Issue recommendations on new internal techniques agencies could use to better detect and mitigate improper payments.
U.S. prosecutors recently settled with Daimler on allegations of improper payments to Russian officials dating back over five years.
Baker Hughes, a Houston oil services company, pleaded guilty last year to making improper payments to secure work in Kazakhstan.
The RACs will conduct prepayment reviews on certain types of claims that historically result in high rates of improper payments.
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Separately, London's Metropolitan Police opened a new investigation into alleged improper payments that News International may have made to police.
So far, there is no allegation of improper payments, but only of the way the donated gifts were reported by World Help.
He would not explain who he left in charge of the company after he left and has denied any improper payments to consulting firms.
Our success in increasing the number of programs reporting improper payments is similar to the success the government is having in reducing improper payments.
The charges that the company may have illegally gained access to thousands of private voicemail accounts and made improper payments to police officers, after all, are quite serious.
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And going forward, every agency in our government will be required to conduct annual assessments to determine which of their programs are at risk of making improper payments.
WHITEHOUSE: Signing the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act | The White House
Concerned about the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the far-reaching law that criminalizes improper payments to foreign officials, the company hires lawyers and accountants with great expertise in the region.
Require agency quarterly submissions and publication of reports on any high-dollar errors identified by the agency and actions the agency will take to recover the improper payment and to prevent future improper payments.
To the question of the original purpose and Congressional intent of the legislation, and whether or not the metrics used under current statute are adequate to measure the entire scope of government-wide improper payments, I say yes.
According to court records filed in the latest case, in 2005 and 2006 Mr Vance and Mr Ertel were working in Iraq for Shield Group Security, a privately-held security company, when they became suspicious the company was making improper payments to Iraqi officials in exchange for influence, and that its employees were engaged in illicit weapons-trafficking and other illegal activity.
We realize that additional work is required to ensure that the universe of improper vendor payments is identified.
Specifically addressing the issue of improper retirement payments, the interagency working group of Inspectors General and CFO staff meet regularly to hone in on this area of waste.
The payments give authorities an "improper profit incentive" to seize assets, says Scott Bullock of the Institute for Justice, a libertarian public-interest law firm in Arlington, Va.
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