Tag: Watchdog

The Vieques Sports City Complex was never built because an environmentalist lawsuit dragged on unresolved for nearly a decade before it was settled. (iStock)

Apathetic HUD officials lose $10.8 million on failed Puerto Rican sports complex

Mark Tapscott · September 23, 2014 6:00 pm

SEC officials said the widespread securities violations would have been difficult to detect were it not for the whistleblower. (iStock)

SEC hands whistleblower record-breaking $30 million award

Sarah Bedford · September 22, 2014 7:56 pm

Fla. AG says online diploma companies selling false documents

Fla. AG says online diploma companies selling false documents

Emily Moore · September 22, 2014 7:50 pm

Broken culture, risky reforms leave unethical VA execs on public payroll

Mark Flatten · September 22, 2014 9:00 am

Journalists, whistleblowers and taxpayers are seeing anything but openness. (iStock)

Journos, whistleblowers decry Obama’s tightening noose on news, information

Mark Tapscott · September 21, 2014 12:21 pm

The Pentagon building is seen in this undated aerial photo. (Photo by U.S. Air Force/Getty images)

DOD can’t track its vast real estate holdings

Mark Tapscott · September 20, 2014 6:00 pm

Here in Guatemala's western highlands, the local government glorifies theÂ citizens who have fled to the United StatesÂ with a towering 40-foot statue called "Homage to the Migrants." (Richard Pollock/Washington Examiner)

Guatemala’s ‘Homage to the Migrant’ statue glorifies illegal immigrants

Richard Pollock · September 20, 2014 3:00 pm

Department of Homeland Security officials can't say if their program to keep foreign terrorists and criminals from getting U.S. visas is working, according to a government watchdog. (iStock Photo)

UPDATED: IG says visa security can’t be verified

Mark Tapscott · September 19, 2014 7:17 pm

Three Florida women will serve lengthy prison terms and make more than $2.4 million in restitution for their participation in a $20 million scheme to defraud Medicare. (iStock Photo)

Three Florida women get slammer for Medicare fraud

Mark Tapscott · September 19, 2014 6:00 pm

A Department of Veterans Affairs employee who remodeled her home using taxpayer dollars was sentenced to four years of probation after pleading guilty to one count of theft in federal court. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Impatient American Legion wants crooked Veterans Affairs managers fired

Mark Flatten · September 19, 2014 4:29 pm

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Feds spend $167 million, audit $150K

Sarah Bedford · September 19, 2014 9:00 am

A recent New York Post story said that Census employees were fabricating unemployment data to mislead the public for political purposes. (iStock)

House GOP: Commerce ‘ambushed’ whistleblower interview

Luke Rosiak · September 18, 2014 2:29 pm