Debate Fact Check: State Dept. Misplaced $6B Under
Hillary Clinton, by Sonya
Sasser, 10/20/16, Politichicks, The Washington Times
In the debate on Wednesday night,
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton denied misplacing $6 billion while serving
in the State Department. However, the Inspector General reports prove
otherwise.
According to the Washington
Times: “The State Department misplaced
and lost some $6 billion due to the improper filing of contracts during the
past six years, mainly during the tenure of former Secretary of State Hilary
Clinton, according to a newly released Inspector General report.
The $6 billion in unaccounted funds
poses a “significant financial risk and demonstrates a lack of internal control
over the Department’s contract actions,” according to the report.
The alert, originally sent on March
20 and just released this week, warns that the missing contracting funds “could
expose the department to substantial financial losses.”
The report centered on State
Department contracts worth “more than $6 billion in which contract files were
incomplete or could not be located at all,” according to the alert.
“The failure to maintain contract
files adequately creates significant financial risk and demonstrates a lack of
internal control over the Department’s contract actions,” the alert states.
The situation “creates conditions
conducive to fraud, as corrupt individuals may attempt to conceal evidence of
illicit behavior by omitting key documents from the contract file,” the report
concluded.” To read more, go to the Washington
Times
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