From USA TODAY:
Openness and a focus on preventing fraud have helped ensure that fraud and abuse of stimulus spending has been kept “to a surprisingly low level,” Vice President Biden said Tuesday..
As of Sept. 30, there have been 4,809 complaints and tips alleging wrongdoing, according to the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, a council of federal inspectors general set up to monitor the stimulus. The board also runs Recovery.gov, the website that publishes data on how stimulus money is being spent. The inspectors general had more than 560 open investigations into those complaints — a small fraction of the 210,000 stimulus contract and grant recipients.
Biden said he’d like to expand the system of stimulus oversight to include all federal spending: “I may have been tapped as Sheriff Joe for the Recovery Act, but no one said my jurisdiction had to be limited to the Recovery Act.”…
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