"Regarding the fraud in Hudson Country that allegedly went undetected for years, Campbell says "no control system is perfect."
Guy is quite a philosopher.
Unmentioned in this article is what is apparently the biggest single problem in the Red Cross---their control of the blood supply. According to what I read, disputes over this issue actually drove out that competent female president.
I can remember how it works now, but the Red Cross essentially has a near-monopoly on the nation's blood supply. Huge amounts of money are made by local chapters and this, apparently, is the main reason they don't want to have any real accounting going on.
By Amran Abocar in Toronto
November 22 2002
Police have laid criminal charges against four doctors, the Canadian Red Cross Society and a United States pharmaceutical company after a five-year investigation into tainted blood.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/11/21/1037697805212.html
BMJ 1995;311:467 (19 August)
A complaint that the Red Cross blood bank in Bombay supplied several hospitals with blood that was contaminated with HIV threatens to snowball into India's biggest blood scandal since the government made screening for HIV mandatory six years ago. A former Red Cross doctor has told government investigators that he has evidence that several hundred bottles of blood whose contamination status is unknown remain unaccounted for in the blood bank's records. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/311/7003/467