The hearing ? titled "License to Steal: Administrative Oversight of Financial Control Failures at the Department of Defense" ? will include release of two new audit reports of the General Accounting Office, along with a detailed staff report of unauthorized and improper payments made by the DoD. The Grassley staff examination was done in coordination with the Air Force Office of Financial Management.
"These reports consistently show that sloppy accounting procedures and ineffective or nonexistent internal controls leave DoD's accounts vulnerable to theft and abuse," Grassley said. "Failure by the DoD to exercise proper accounting procedures has resulted in fraud and mismanagement of the taxpayers' money."
Grassley will conduct the hearing as chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts, in Dirksen 226 on September 28, at 1:00 p.m. (EDT).
Panel I
Sharon A. Brown
Systems Accountant ? Air Force Materiel Command
Wendell L. Jones
Auditor ? Air Force Audit Agency
Joseph A. Wise
Systems Accountant ? Air Force Materiel Command
Otas J. Horn
Systems Accountant ? Air Force Materiel Command
Panel II
Jeffrey C. Steinhoff
Director of Planning and Accounting ? Accounting and Information Management Division
General Accounting Office
Gayle L. Fischer
Assistant Director of Defense Audits ? Accounting and Information Management Division
General Accounting Office
Panel III
John S. Nabil
Director ? Defense Finance and Accounting Service
A. Ernest Fitzgerald
Management Systems Deputy ? Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force