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NOAA's Lubchenco vows to clamp down on fine fund's use |
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GLOUCESTER, MA - July 30, 2010 - Four days before she convenes a one-day law enforcement summit conference, federal fisheries administrator Jane Lubchenco announced a multi-faceted program to rein in use of the fund that held fines taken from the fishing industry and used for questionable purposes.
Misuse of the fund was revealed in early July by Commerce Department Inspector General Todd Zinser, who has been investigating police and legal excesses in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for the past year. Lubchenco's plan, keyed to assertions about the need for accountability and its link to transparency, involves ending the practice of agents and litigators to draw freely from the fund without oversight or apparent limits. Read the complete story from The Gloucester Daily Times.
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