|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
495
|
15,995
|
16,490
|
12,356
|
|
|
44,993
|
8,400
|
53,393
|
39,471
|
|
|
4,949
|
4,166
|
9,115
|
3,959
|
|
|
4,653
|
9,042
|
13,695
|
2,023
|
|
|
792
|
32,304
|
33,096
|
21,741
|
|
|
3,313
|
20,487
|
23,800
|
16,193
|
|
|
4,686
|
13,091
|
17,777
|
1,642
|
|
|
2,295
|
6,618
|
8,913
|
698
|
|
|
25,772
|
27,490
|
53,262
|
34,565
|
|
|
16,543
|
25,379
|
41,922
|
21,102
|
|
|
14,540
|
45,977
|
60,517
|
3,559
|
|
|
8,322
|
29,032
|
37,354
|
7,317
|
|
|
2,870
|
25,091
|
27,961
|
7,944
|
|
|
134,223
|
263,072
|
397,295
|
172,570
|
Comments:
1. The Inspector General's staff informed him of the serious case over-counting
problems at the San Francisco and Florida Rural programs in July 1998 but
he would not authorize audits or share this information with Congress even
though the sizable case reductions occurred after OIG staff contacted the
programs. The Inspector General had approved an audit of the San Francisco
program but removed it from the schedule after discussions with the Corporation
President.
2. The OIG issued audit reports on the Northern Virginia, Gulf Coast Houston, San Diego, Miami, Prairie State, and Wisconsin programs. The GAO issued a report on the Baltimore, New York City, Puerto Rico, Chicago, and Los Angeles programs.
3. OIG staff and GAO staff examined annual case reports submitted 13 of the 269 grantees. These grantees collectively reported that their programs produced 397,295 cases in 1997. This number represents 20.5 percent of the total number of cases reported to Congress (1,932,613 cases) for the 1997 legal services program.
4. OIG staff and GAO staff determined that 172,570 of the 397,295 (43.4 percent) cases reported to LSC and included in the LSC report to Congress for the 1997 program were invalid and/or questionable.
5. GAO performed the reviews in May and June 1998 at the request of Congress. Congress requested the special GAO review after LSC leadership and the LSC Inspector General persisted in misrepresenting the scope, magnitude, and types of the case over-counting problems.
6. LSC staff reviewed three other case reports submitted by the Central Michigan, Alameda, and Farmworkers of North Carolina programs for the 1997 program. They also found serious case reporting problems. The problems identified at the Alameda and North Carolina programs were so serious that LSC decided to cease funding one program and fined the other.
Index of the LSC Case Over-Counting Scandal
Legal Services Accountability Project Page