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A new funding scheme to keep construction of Orange County's federal courthouse on track despite a surprise congressional budget cut is "a done deal," General Services Administrator Roger W. Johnson said Wednesday. Johnson, who was home in Orange County on Wednesday, said his agency has culled $25 million from the long-term budgets of other projects and obtained approval from all the necessary congressional budget committees to use it for the courthouse.

Despite Tuesday's vote in Congress denying $25.2 million needed to build Orange County's first federal courthouse, General Services Administrator Roger W. Johnson has pledged that he will find the money necessary to keep the long-awaited project on schedule. In a letter made public Tuesday by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Johnson assured the chairman of the Senate Treasury subcommittee, Sen. Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.

Complaining that he is the target of a smear campaign by disgruntled Washington insiders, General Services Administration chief Roger Johnson spent much of Friday defending his recent sale of more than $2 million worth of stock in the Irvine computer business he once ran. The way Johnson sold 184,000 shares of Western Digital Corp. in January and February was questioned in a newspaper report published earlier this week.

It all seemed to come crashing down one night last March when Roger Johnson walked into his Georgetown living room and just stood there. He couldn't remember feeling more alone--bewildered really. The cold outside was bitter, the worst in anyone's memory. Three thousand miles away stood his seaside dream house, where the warm shores of Laguna Beach were his back yard.

A second government audit of General Administration chief Roger W. Johnson's travel expenses has concluded he owed the government $72 for improperly using his government credit card and mixing personal and commercial trips, but he already has paid the debt. The GSA inspector general's office blamed the former Orange County businessman's "unfamiliarity with official travel rules" for most of the mistakes but raps his knuckles, nonetheless, for the series of administrative blunders.

Roger W. Johnson, the head of the General Services Administration, plans to repay the government $256.73 for 184 long-distance phone calls and several pieces of overnight mail that his staff said amounted to personal use of government resources, it was announced Friday. Johnson, the Orange County businessman who rose to become the highest-ranking Republican in the Clinton Administration, ordered the review by GSA's Chief Financial Officer Dennis J.

Former Orange County businessman Roger Johnson, who now heads the General Services Administration, has asked the agency's inspector general to examine his travel records after questions were raised about detours he made to his Laguna Beach home during official visits to the region. Johnson visited his home on five of the nine official trips he scheduled during his first seven months in office, the Wall Street Journal reported in its Monday edition.

As many as 14 federal projects in California will be delayed--and possibly scuttled--by a cost review announced Thursday by the Clinton Administration. The facilities include court buildings in Santa Ana, Sacramento and San Francisco, and new Border Patrol stations in Calexico and Tecate, according to documents released by the General Services Administration. GSA Administrator Roger W.

Orange County businessman Roger Johnson, the only Republican nominated to a high-level post in the Clinton Administration, has been confirmed by the Senate to head the General Services Administration. "I am clearly honored to be asked by the President to come in and help him in this enormous job," Johnson said Thursday of his new job as head of the federal government's housekeeping agency with 20,000 employees and an annual budget of $10.4 billion.

Roger W. Johnson, the Orange County businessman who broke ranks with the Republican Party to endorse Bill Clinton's presidential bid, sailed through a Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday as he outlined his plans to shake up the federal government's vast housekeeping agency, the General Services Administration. After two hours of largely friendly questioning by members of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, Sen.