
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, August 2, 1993                   TAG: 9308020099
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

REGULATOR REPRIMANDED FOR WORLD SERIES TRIP

The Resolution Trust Corp.'s top lawyer arranged a taxpayer-financed business trip to Atlanta last fall that allowed him to take in a Sunday night World Series game, an investigatory report says.

Richard T. Aboussie, the acting general counsel for the government's savings and loan bailout agency, was verbally reprimanded, according to an RTC inspector general's report.

The report, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, said Aboussie flew to Atlanta on Oct. 18, 1992, and watched Game 2 of the World Series at the invitation of an RTC contractor. Aboussie reimbursed the contractor for the ticket, the report said.

The morning after the game, Aboussie conducted three brief business meetings with RTC legal staff in Atlanta before heading on to Denver for additional staff meetings. The cost to taxpayers for the flights and hotel was $779.

- Associated Press

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