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Financial Disclosure: Implementation of Statute Governing Judicial Branch Personnel

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date April 27, 1993
Report No. GGD-93-85
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Summary:

As part of a trend toward uniform ethics rules for federal employees, the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 consolidated the laws governing financial disclosure reports for high-level officials in all three branches of government. GAO reviewed the judicial branch's implementation of new provisions and found that the filing and the review of financial disclosure reports by judicial personnel in 1991 did not adequately comply with the law and was not in accordance with sound management practices. First, the implementing procedures did not identify and promptly notify all persons required to file, nor did the procedures guarantee that these individuals had actually filed reports covering the proper time period. Second, the procedures did not mandate completion of disclosure certifications within 60 days when no additional information was requested of filers. Third, the procedures did not require persons doing compliance reviews to sign the disclosure reports when they could give positive assurance opinions.

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