Reports of overspending. lack of management controls and bad management practices on the part of LSC-.funded projects have surfaced. A General Accounting Office report (November 6. 1978. HRD78164) cited poor coordination with other local providers of legal services and the lack of legal needs .assessments being undertaken to establish service priorities. Legal Service Corporation projects continue to provide legal service to illegal aliens in spite of congressional prohibition of such activity. The Appropriations Committee investigation found that the LSC engages in frequent lobbying. A LSCfunded project in Michigan filed an amicus curiae brief in support. of the provision of State funds for nontherapeutic abortions.
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