Federal legal aid for poor spent on alcohol, staff loans, report says

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• Congressional investigators: Legal Services Corp. didn't monitor how money spent
  
• The nonprofit, funded by Congress, distributes grants to legal aid groups in all states
  
• Top LSC officials say they don't tolerate "spending of grantee funds outside the law"
  
• Report questioned the use of more than $1 million in payments
  
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