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  • CALIFORNIA: Spending by prison care overseer questioned

    02/28/2008 8:12:54 AM PST · by SmithL · 3 replies · 203+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 2/28/8 | Tom Chorneau
    Sacramento -- The former federal receiver hired to improve California's troubled prison health care system misspent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars before being fired last month, according to a state inspector general's report released Wednesday. Robert Sillen, who once threatened to "back up the Brink's truck" to the state's treasury to get the money needed to provide better inmate care, authorized $218,790 in overpayments to staff members for benefits such as health insurance and retirement that they already received, said the report, which found no evidence of fraud. In addition to millions spent on consultants and professional services, the...