Earl E. Devaney is chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, which manages this
website and oversees spending under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
July 16, 2010
Every once in a while, a news reporter reviewing the alleged misuse of Recovery Act funds will ask me a fundamental question: When can the public expect to see criminal indictments in the Recovery program? Prosecutions eventually will emerge, I explain, but then I go on to add that there’s a lot more to protecting the taxpayers’ pocketbook than bringing high-profile indictments. Indeed, the Recovery Board’s most important challenge is to prevent fraud and waste before they occur in Recovery programs.
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