Does Texas Need an Independent Inspector General's Office to Root Out Fraud & Waste?Submitted by mlevin on Sat, 07/12/2008 - 3:38pm.
Senator Bob Deuell proposes the creation of such an office for the "main" state agencies in today's Dallas Morning News and Governor Rick Perry's office indicates support. The issue came up after controversial firings at the Texas Education Agency's Inspector General's office - currently big agencies like TEA have their own inspector general's office. Deuell and Perry are right to examine whether more efficiency and independence could be achieved by a centralized inspector general's office that investigated waste, fraud, and abuse at multiple agencies. Moreover, it may be possible to separate this function from the agencies being monitored without creating an entirely new government agency. First, there is already the State Auditor which has a Special Investigations Unit. Texans can call the Auditor's Office at 1-800-TX-AUDIT to report malfeasance at state agencies. To the extent existing inspector general offices within agencies have additional legal powers, those could be added to the Auditor's office and their employees could be moved to the Auditor's office at no cost to taxpayers. In additon to utilizing the Auditor's Office, some portion of the work that involves reviewing the books could be contracted out to an independent accounting firm, further ensuring independence. In any centralization initiative, it will be important to consider the unique aspects of agencies that have persons in their custody, whether they are behind bars or civilly committed, as these agencies will almost surely continue to need their own inspector general's office, or a particular inspector general assigned to them, to monitor conditions, a function that helps the state avoid costly federal lawsuits. On Wednesday, the House Government Reform Committee will discuss this issue at an interim hearing. Regardless of what the facts turn out to be at TEA, state leaders are wise to be looking at separating inspector general's offices from many of the agencies that they are supposed to be investigating. The DMN story is at: Bookmark/Search this post with: |
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Does Texas Need an Independent Inspector General's Office
To Whom It May Concern,
List of PEOPLE IN QUESTION:
Department of Health and Human Services
National Guardianship Association
American Bar Association
The Courts (Family, Civil and Probate)
Attorneys
Inspector General
Attorney General
Judicial Watch Committees
Judicial Misconduct Commission
Court Investigators
Senators
Congressmen and women
Law Makers
These people are all makeing it legal for them to abuse and steal so that our elderly and disabled are put on Medicaid. And when we call to report this to the Medicaid offices, we are told that it is not fraud if the courts are doing it.
This is a list of the people I am talking about in the US who say, that they want to protect and preserve the elderly and disabled people of this country. I have a major problem with this. Not so much because I believe that all elderly and disabled people are protected without some of these people at some point in time, but because these people fall short on the duty they say they want to do. There are many elderly and disabled who have been taken by these people and abused by them, and that is my problem.
There is no one who is watching these groups of people to make sure that they are not doing what they have and are accusing family and friends of the elderly and disabled of doing to them. These people are taking over our elderly and disabled loved ones and saying that we the family are forcing them to do things like give us money, or that we are neglecting them or physically abusing them. And although I know that some are not directly involved with this, I know that it is their duty to put an end to the abuse by these people. Our loved ones are dieing alone, wanting to know why these people are allowed to do to them (isolate, drug, steal, legally abuse them and their estates and families), what they are supposed to protect them from.
Please go to these websites and judge for your self to see if what I am saying is not true. See if you can think of something that would help these groups who are for PROTECTING AND PRESERVING our elderly and disabled from abuse stop the abuse of the list above. ALL ABUSE FAMILY, FRIENDS, STARNGERS, AND OUR COURTS AND IT’S APPOINTED.
Estate of Denial by Lou Ann Anderson
http://www.estateofdenial.com/
The Advocates for National Guardianship Ethics and Reform; A.N.G.E.R.
http://angr.us/
Elder Abuse Help
http://elderabusehelp.org/
National Association to Stop Guardian Abuse
http://www.stopguardianabuse.org/
Does Texas Need an Independent Inspector General's Office
To Whom It May Concern,
List of PEOPLE IN QUESTION:
Department of Health and Human Services
National Guardianship Association
American Bar Association
The Courts (Family, Civil and Probate)
Attorneys
Inspector General
Attorney General
Judicial Watch Committees
Judicial Misconduct Commission
Court Investigators
Senators
Congressmen and women
Law Makers
These people are all makeing it legal for them to abuse and steal so that our elderly and disabled are put on Medicaid. And when we call to report this to the Medicaid offices, we are told that it is not fraud if the courts are doing it.
This is a list of the people I am talking about in the US who say, that they want to protect and preserve the elderly and disabled people of this country. I have a major problem with this. Not so much because I believe that all elderly and disabled people are protected without some of these people at some point in time, but because these people fall short on the duty they say they want to do. There are many elderly and disabled who have been taken by these people and abused by them, and that is my problem.
There is no one who is watching these groups of people to make sure that they are not doing what they have and are accusing family and friends of the elderly and disabled of doing to them. These people are taking over our elderly and disabled loved ones and saying that we the family are forcing them to do things like give us money, or that we are neglecting them or physically abusing them. And although I know that some are not directly involved with this, I know that it is their duty to put an end to the abuse by these people. Our loved ones are dieing alone, wanting to know why these people are allowed to do to them (isolate, drug, steal, legally abuse them and their estates and families), what they are supposed to protect them from.
Please go to these websites and judge for your self to see if what I am saying is not true. See if you can think of something that would help these groups who are for PROTECTING AND PRESERVING our elderly and disabled from abuse stop the abuse of the list above. ALL ABUSE FAMILY, FRIENDS, STARNGERS, AND OUR COURTS AND IT’S APPOINTED.
Estate of Denial by Lou Ann Anderson
http://www.estateofdenial.com/
The Advocates for National Guardianship Ethics and Reform; A.N.G.E.R.
http://angr.us/
Elder Abuse Help
http://elderabusehelp.org/
National Association to Stop Guardian Abuse
http://www.stopguardianabuse.org/