Source: AP
Posted: 11/19/2010
Last Updated: 6 hours and 38 minutes ago
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COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio watchdog concludes multiple slip-ups led to the state's inadvertent use of overseas workers in a program funded with federal stimulus money.
A Texas company hired to run Ohio's $11 million appliance rebate program earlier this year outsourced some of the processing to El Salvador. Ohio Inspector General Thomas Charles said this week the state Department of Development failed to require that U.S.-based call centers be used.
Charles' investigation also found the department did not make the contractor state where work would be done. The report says the company was not as clear as other bidders, who stipulated they would use call centers in the U.S.
Asked for comment by The Columbus Dispatch, the department issued a statement praising the rebate program.
Read more:
http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/state/report-ohio-stim...
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Wow - who would have ever guessed this?
