Auditors question $700bn US bail-out plan
US auditors have questioned the US government's $US700bn bail-out plan and urge tougher monitoring
US auditors have questioned the US government's $US700bn bail-out plan and urge tougher monitoring
The US government must toughen the monitoring of its $700bn (£468bn)
financial bail-out to ensure banking institutions limit their top executives’
pay and comply with other restrictions, federal auditors said yesterday in the
first comprehensive review of the US government’s $US700bn rescue package.
In an discouraging report, the
Government Accountability
Office (GAO) criticised the Treasury Department for not having any mechanism
to track how institutions were using $US150bn of taxpayer money injected into
the banking system last month,
Associated
Press reports.
The 72-page report was strong enough to fuel congressional concern that banks
and other institutions were not being properly monitored and failed to use the
money to increase lending.
In a response to the GAO review, Neel Kashkari, head of the Treasury
Department’s Office of Financial Stability, said the agency was developing its
own compliance program and was in disagreement with the need to work with
regulators.
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