Walker, who as U.S. Comptroller General launched a quixotic antideficit crusade and now heads the antideficit foundation funded by Blackstone Group billionaire Peter G.

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The figure is in a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General on the safety of health services in NI.

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Most notably, as the result of a lengthy investigation as attorney general, Mr. Cuomo prosecuted former New York state Comptroller Alan Hevesi, who pleaded guilty to a felony corruption charge for his role in a pay-to-play pension scandal.

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Raja was forced to resign from his post as minister on Nov. 14 after the Comptroller and Auditor General of India released a report that alleges he had rigged the sale of 2G spectrum in 2008 for prices far lower than market value.

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In a report tabled in the parliament on Tuesday, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) said it found lapses in 22% cases where loans were written off.

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The Commission quotes evidence given to a House of Lords committee earlier this year by the UK's Comptroller and Auditor General, Sir John Bourn, who said there were 500 accounts representing the expenditure of British central government.

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But both reports also cited failures and mistakes by Silver and his top staffers in a settlement that was reviewed by staffers from the Attorney General's Office and state Comptroller's Office.

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Burris, 71, also a Democrat, served Illinois from 1979 to 1992, first as state comptroller and later as attorney general.

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When former New York State comptroller Alan Hevesi pleaded guilty last year in a pension-fund investigation by then-Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, he negotiated an agreement in which prosecutors stipulated there was no evidence to charge his sons with any crimes.

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