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"Two role-playing investigators with bogus documents and a hidden camera walked into Head Start centers across the country to expose fraud and corruption. They got more than they had bargained for, discovering a pattern of rule-bending fraud so shocking it prompted a briefing for President Obama. sub-head-start Is this the latest James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles sting operation? Nope. It was the U.S. Government Accountability Office, which used tactics remarkably similar to O'Keefe and Giles, sans the pimp and prostitute costumes. GAO's undercover investigation revealed a common practice among Head Start employees: the deliberate disregard - or even outright falsification - of income documentation to pad enrollment. "Now you see it, now you don't," said a Head Start employee in New Jersey who "disappeared" $23,000 worth of income for one applicant so that his fictitious child could be enrolled. GAO found Head Start programs were more than willing to help its investigators falsify applications at eight of the 15 centers it visited."