Another reason is that the politicians have had most of the hard work done for them by Paul van Buitenen, an internal auditor with the commission who turned whistle-blower and handed out a fat dossier of embarrassing allegations last month.
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Take its recent conduct in the case of Paul van Buitenen, an internal auditor who leaked documents to the European Parliament late last year showing mismanagement and petty corruption among some commissioners and their staff.
Christopher Telano, chief internal auditor at the New York City Health and Hospitals Corp.
However, an internal council auditor who monitored the use of cars in the Wrexham cemetery noticed serious problems.
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Nor do journalists get access in the normal course of events to a company's internal books, as an auditor would.
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