{"id":1089,"date":"2007-04-05T10:39:27","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T16:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2017-06-06T06:07:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T12:07:57","slug":"iraq-accounting-is-still-a-muddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/iraq-accounting-is-still-a-muddle\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq accounting is still a muddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/accounting1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/accounting.thumbnail1.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>By <a class=\"linkedBylineName\" href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/reporter.aspx?id=436\">Matt Kelley<\/a>, USA TODAY<\/p>\n<p>A newly formed consulting firm hired to account for more than $7.3 billion in Iraqi reconstruction money did not deliver a database that could help investigators track waste and fraud, a recent report found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">The result: Two years after uncovering one major fraud case, auditors still haven&#8217;t determined whether there was more graft in the spending of Iraqi oil proceeds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">In April 2005, Stuart Bowen, the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, recommended creating a database to help review U.S. spending throughout Iraq. The recommendation followed the discovery of an $8.6 million bid-rigging scheme in south-central Iraq. Five months later, a U.S. contracting office in Baghdad hired Reviewer Management International (RMI) of New York to create a database that could link contracts with the officials who authorized them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">RMI, however, wasn&#8217;t given adequate instructions until near the end of its $1.5 million contract and, as a result, didn&#8217;t deliver a usable database, the inspector general&#8217;s office found in a follow-up report released Jan. 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\"><a href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/2007-04-04-corruption-probe_N.htm\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Kelley, USA TODAY A newly formed consulting firm hired to account for more than $7.3 billion in Iraqi reconstruction money did not deliver a database that could help investigators track waste and fraud, a recent report found. 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