Tag: Watchdog

Report: FBI official used ‘poor judgment’ in suit

Report: FBI official used ‘poor judgment’ in suit

Eric Tucker · August 27, 2014 10:57 pm

Food stamp fraud is so widespread that Government Accounting Office investigators found dozens of examples merely by searching online e-commerce sites like Craigslist.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Online food stamp fraud growing, GAO reports

Kelly Cohen · August 27, 2014 7:08 pm

"While the case reviews in this report document poor quality of care, we are unable to conclusively assert that the absence of timely quality care caused the deaths of these veterans," Veterans Affairs Acting Inspector General Richard Griffin said in a report on the manipulation of patient waiting lists in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Veterans Affairs IG finds no direct links between patient deaths and scheduling scams at Phoenix hospital

Mark Flatten · August 26, 2014 10:19 pm

The EPA's Office of Environmental Information spent $2.2 million for cloud computing services in 2011 in an attempt to reduce the agency's computing costs and speed up processing. (iStock)

Big contractors fail to deliver promised services, but EPA paid them anyway

Kelly Cohen · August 26, 2014 10:02 pm

DEA payments to Amtrak employee being investigated

DEA payments to Amtrak employee being investigated

Washington Examiner · August 26, 2014 9:54 pm

NY state overtime costs on pace for record high

NY state overtime costs on pace for record high

David Klepper · August 26, 2014 8:17 pm

The U.S. Department of Labor spent $100,000 promoting a book club. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., wants to know more about it. (iStock)

Labor Department spends $100K on a book club

Kelly Cohen · August 26, 2014 6:03 pm

"There seems to be no limit on how low this administration and VA will stoop to deflect blame for a scandal," said Pete Hegseth, CEO of Concerned Veterans for America. (AP Photo)

Veterans’ advocate says VA tries to ‘whitewash’ Phoenix deaths

Mark Flatten · August 26, 2014 5:37 pm

New York man charged with stealing $25K from union

New York man charged with stealing $25K from union

Washington Examiner · August 26, 2014 10:51 am

Officials say Kansas City plays a central role in a gang scheme that hires homeless people to cash counterfeit checks. (iStock Image)

Kansas City at center of Operation Homeless

Associated Press · August 25, 2014 1:05 pm

Federal subpoena sought email of ex-Pat Quinn advisers

Federal subpoena sought email of ex-Pat Quinn advisers

Jason Keyser · August 23, 2014 8:23 pm

Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni and his wife, Majorie Roxby Mascheroni, were sentenced Wednesday for conspiring to violate the Atomic Energy Act by "communicating classified nuclear weapons data to a person believed to be a Venezuelan government official, and making false statements to the FBI," according to the U.S. Department of Justice. (AP Photos)

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Los Alamos worker sentenced for trying to pass U.S. nuclear secrets to Venezuela

Kelly Cohen · August 23, 2014 10:00 am