The German bishops said they would allow outside investigators to look for abuse cases in diocesan personnel records dating back at least 10 years, and in some cases all the way to 1945, though there were indications that some crucial records may have already been destroyed.
"We're not going to go trawling the streets, looking for people abusing the hosepipe ban.
The IRS had already investigated 22 other suspect tax preparers, who had handled more than 1,500 tax returns, looking for refund abuse.
Responding to a crisis both in the mutual fund industry and at the commission, which until recently never looked for trading abuses, the S.E.C. chairman, William H. Donaldson, outlined proposals beyond those he announced on Friday.
"I'm looking for waste, fraud, and abuse in government," he told me.
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The commission, an independent watchdog, looks for waste, abuse and corruption at all levels of state government.
The carbon isotope test is used to look for testosterone abuse, and it came into use about six years ago, when companies produced equipment sensitive enough to do the test in urine samples.
Pope Francis' announcement comes as Chilean police raid church offices throughout the Andean nation looking for new cases of sexual abuse or evidence that church officials concealed abuse from authorities.
To the Health Department's credit, the report said, it recently introduced a powerful new computerized warehouse of Medicaid claims that could be used for "data mining" — that is, looking for patterns that might indicate abuses of the system.
