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U.S. Education Department has mismanaged at least $450 million

April 4, 2001
Investigators say the department routinely misappropriated money through duplicate and other improper payments because of a range of long-standing fiscal oversight problems.

The U.S. Education Department mismanaged at least $450 million as the agency failed three consecutive audits during the final three years of the Clinton administration, the agency's inspector general told a House subcommittee yesterday.

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