The report also found that the ignition facility's director until last year, E. Michael Campbell, deliberately failed to report the problems to senior management at Livermore and at the Energy Department.
The researchers also failed to report the safety problems to the members of the Institutional Review Board and federal officials, as the federal rules require.
In Roslyn, the school board failed to report the first problems to the police, convinced that such public shame would harm the students.
Investigators found that, before the spill, the company's leak detection gauges produced readings 20 times the level that would indicate a problem, but the operator failed to report the issue to his supervisor and shut down the pipeline.
He failed to report the incidents.
"I failed to report the existence of a bank account".
This year, when the exchanges were about to open, CMS and Kathleen Sebelius, the health secretary, failed to report any serious problems.Others, including the Government Accountability Office, were more worried.
Several also called for enacting criminal penalties for companies that failed to report safety problems, a position even Ford and Firestone endorsed.
"PwC's audit reports glossed over problems of freedom of association and collective bargaining, overlooked serious violations of health and safety standards, and failed to report common problems in wages and hours".
The Justice Department's fraud agreement with Wells Fargo says that a bank executive named Kurt Lofrano failed to report underwriting problems, as he was required to do, despite being told about thousands of such problems.
