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Published April 2009
"In this report, the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled
Asset Relief Program (“SIGTARP”) endeavors to (i) explain the various TARP
programs and how the Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) has used those
programs through March 31, 2009, (ii) describe what SIGTARP has done since its
Initial Report to Congress, dated February 6, 2009 (the “Initial Report”), to oversee
this historic program with respect to both audits and investigations, and (iii) set
forth a series of recommendations for the operation of TARP."
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