ABUSES IN FEDERAL STUDENT GRANT PROGRAMS HEARINGS BEFORE THE PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS UNITED STATES SENATE FIRST SESSION OCTOBER 27-28, 1993 Printed for the use of the Committee on Governmental Affairs 73-880 cc U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1994 For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402 ISBN 0-16-044134-X Franklin G. Polk, Minority Staff Director and Chief Counsel PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS SAM NUNN, Georgia, Chairman CARL LEVIN, Michigan WILLIAM V. ROTH, Jr., Delaware ROBERT F. BENNETT, Utah Eleanore Hill, Chief Counsel (II) Hon. Claiborne Pell, U.S. Senator from the State of Rhode Island Richard C. Stiener, Director, Office of Special Investigations, U.S. General Accounting Office, accompanied by Clarence Crawford, Director, Education and Employment Issues; Donald Wheeler, Deputy Director, Office of Special Investigations; and Robert Hast, Assistant Director, Office of Special Inves- Alan Edelman, Counsel, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations David B. Buckley, Chief Investigator, Permanent Subcommittee on Investiga- Scott E. Newton, Investigator, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations James B. Thomas, Jr., Inspector General, U.S. Department of Education David A. Longanecker, Assistant Secretary, Office of Postsecondary Edu- cation, U.S. Department of Education, accompanied by Donald Wurtz, As- sistant Secretary and Chief Financial Officer, U.S. Department of Edu- Sister Janet Fitzgerald, President, Molloy College, Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York, accompanied by Sister Patricia Morris, Vice President |