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Copyright © 1999, Congressional Information
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2000 CIS H 52152
TITLE:
Legal Services Corporation
CIS-NO: 2000-H521-52
SOURCE: Committee on the Judiciary. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: Sept. 29, 1999
LENGTH: iii+136 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1020-A;
1020-B
SUDOC: Y4.J89/1:106/27
MC-ENTRY-NO: 2000-13235
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 27.
Hearing before the Subcom on Commercial and Administrative Law to examine
Legal Services Corp. (LSC) financial accountability, in light
of concerns that recipients of LSC grants for legal aid to the
poor have inaccurately and fraudulently calculated case load data, which is used
in determining Federal funding levels for LSC.
Supplementary
material (p. 115-136) includes correspondence and a witness's written statement.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Legal Services Corp
financial accountability, grant recipients case load reporting accuracy
DESCRIPTORS:
LEGAL SERVICES CORP.; LEGAL AID AND
SERVICES; ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING; LEGAL
ETHICS; INFORMATION SERVICES AND SYSTEMS; FEDERAL AID PROGRAMS;
GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY; FRAUD
00-H521-52 TESTIMONY NO: 1
Sept. 29, 1999 p. 6-31
WITNESSES (and witness
notations):
QUATREVAUX, EDOUARD R. (Inspector General,
LSC)
EKSTRAND, LAURIE E. (Deputy Administrator,
Administration of Justice Issues, General Government Division, GAO)
REZMOVIC, EVI L. (Assistant Director, GAO)
MONTGOMERY, JAN (Assistant General Counsel, GAO)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Findings of LSC
Office of Inspector General 1997-98 audits of LSC grant recipients; negative
assessment of LSC grantees case load data accuracy.
CONTENT
NOTATION:
Legal Services Corp financial
accountability, grant recipients case load reporting accuracy
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR
GENERAL, LEGAL SERVICES CORP.; GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
00-H521-52 TESTIMONY NO: 2 Sept.
29, 1999 p. 32-53
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
ERLENBORN, JOHN N. (Vice Board Chair, LSC)
MCKAY, JOHN (President, LSC)
STATEMENTS AND
DISCUSSION:
Efforts to improve accuracy of LSC grant
recipient case load data; response to concerns regarding LSC financial
accountability and allegations of fraud; assurances that LSC is capable of
providing legal services to all eligible poor.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Legal Services Corp
financial accountability, grant recipients case load reporting accuracy
00-H521-52 TESTIMONY NO: 3 Sept.
29, 1999 p. 54-113, 120-134
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
PICKERING, JOHN H. (Member, Standing Committee on
Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants, ABA)
BOEHM, KENNETH F. (Chairman, National
Legal and Policy Center)
THOMAS, VIRGINIA
L. (Senior Fellow, Government Studies, Heritage Foundation)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Need for increased LSC
grant recipient accuracy in case service reporting, with
recommendations; criticism of LSC financial accountability, citing inaccurate
case load reports that determine Federal funding levels; differing views on
proposal to restrict LSC funding to address alleged misconduct.
INSERTION:
-- Thomas, V. L.; and Rogers, Ryan H.,
"Time for Congress To Hold the Legal Services Corporation
Accountable" Heritage Foundation Backgrounder, July 22, 1999, with tables,
graph, and chart (p. 80-101).
CONTENT NOTATION:
Legal Services Corp financial
accountability, grant recipients case load reporting accuracy
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION;
STATISTICAL DATA: PUBLIC WELFARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY; STATISTICAL DATA:
GOVERNMENT
LOAD-DATE: July 6, 2001 
