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10-BR Friday, May 10, 1991 The Philadelphia Inquirer City inspector general is named chief of Licenses Inspections 5jv ax y) i if Wn 1 If )M I from 10 weeks to 10 to IS working days and implemented training and development programs for inspectors. He said that he began thinking about leaving city government last fall, and that the disagreement with Ulshafer did not play a role in his decision. Goode appointed Wiziger inspector general in 198S, and during his tenure, 132 city employees were arrested. Wigrizer was first inspector general of the VS. Treasury Department from 1978 to 1981 and spent 26 years as director of the Criminal Tax Division and deputy chief counsel of the Office of Regional Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service.

Inquirer staff writer Dan Meyers contributed to this article. Tt PhUadvlphia Inquire WILUAM F. STEINMETC Wigrizer, Mayor Goode and departing Commissioner Don Kligerman. At City Hall are (from left) Managing Director David H. Plngree, Inspector General Leon By Larry Copeland Aivlrcr Sttff WriMr Mayor Goode yesterday tapped Philadelphia Inspector General Leon Wigrizer, who spurred a continuing federal investigation of corruption in the city's Licenses and Inspections Department, to head the troubled agency.

Wigrizer, 63, will replace Commissioner Don Kligerman, who is leaving to become a vice president of North Philadelphia Health System, a private nonprofit agency that operates two hospitals. The mayor said he chose Wigrizer because the former federal inspector is the best choice to continue attacking entrenched corruption and mismanagement in "There has been much discussion and debate about the level of corruption in the Department," Goode said. "Don Kligerman has done much to clean that up and root it out. Wigrizer can build on what Don has done, and leave to the next mayor a department that is free of corruption." Goode praised Kligerman, 34, as "an outstanding public servant" who cooperated fully with the probe of Licenses and Inspections. So far, the federal inquiry has netted four suspects.

The four, all current or former officials, were charged Feb. 5 with soliciting and accepting illegal payments of $50 to $500 between 1986 and 1990 from contractors in exchange for preferential treatment in issuing citations and scheduling inspections. The federal review was started af ter Wigrizer approached U.S. Attorney Michael M. Baylson about a joint investigation of which issues licenses and permits and inspects and issues citations for violations of fire and building codes.

Yesterday, Wigrizer would say only that the investigation was continuing. The probe is the latest in a long series for which has had numerous corruption and mismanagement scandals since its inception in 1951. Just one week before Goode appointed Kligerman on Dec. 8, 1988, a county grand jury cited the department for widespread mismanagement and incompetence. The grand jury's presentment concluded that inspectors' failure to recognize fire code violations had resulted in six major fires between 1984 and 1987 fires that killed two people and destroyed $25 million worth of property.

The grand jury recommended that responsibility for fire code inspections be transferred from to the Fire Department. That never happened, and this year, after the inferno at One Meridian Plaza that killed three firefighters, Fire Commissioner Roger M. Ul-shafer said the department was so corrupted that it "cannot be trusted" to conduct fire inspections of high-rise buildings. Ulshafer said the Fire Department should be responsible for conducting fire safety inspections. Goode said he would soon announce his decision on the matter.

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