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Newsday's series disclosed that the U.S. General Services Administration had embarked on a multi-billion nationwide construction program with little oversight from Congress and as a result officials discouraged contract competition. Officials also provided tens of millions of dollars in unnecessary luxuries for judges in federal courthouses.The series resulted in the GSA being blasted for more than $500 million in waste, fraud and abuse at federal projects across the country, May 1 through Dec. 14, 1994.