Tag: Watchdog

In this file photo taken Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, an Electronic Benefit Transfer card, food stamp recipients use to purchase food, is seen at the Sacramento County Department of Human Assistance in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Those at the front lines of junk-food food stamp purchases rail at USDA secrecy

Luke Rosiak · August 12, 2014 2:59 pm

Attorney general: NYC taxi drivers to get $1.3M

Attorney general: NYC taxi drivers to get $1.3M

Washington Examiner · August 12, 2014 11:40 am

Financial coordinator in Houston guilty of fraud

Financial coordinator in Houston guilty of fraud

Washington Examiner · August 12, 2014 11:36 am

FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2010, file photo, a northbound Amtrak Acela passes through Middle River, Md. The Drug Enforcement Administration paid an Amtrak secretary $854,460 over nearly 20 years to obtain confidential information about train passengers, which the DEA could have lawfully obtained for free through a law enforcement network, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File)

National Security

DEA improperly paid $854,460 for passenger lists

Pete Yost · August 12, 2014 7:48 am

NY judge to encourage settlements of GM lawsuits

NY judge to encourage settlements of GM lawsuits

Larry Neumeister · August 11, 2014 11:50 pm

Barneys to pay $525,000 in shopper-profiling probe

Barneys to pay $525,000 in shopper-profiling probe

Jennifer Peltz · August 11, 2014 9:13 pm

US settles with Kansas over alleged pension fraud

US settles with Kansas over alleged pension fraud

Roxana Hegeman · August 11, 2014 8:26 pm

Ohioan charged with embezzling $2.9M from insurer

Ohioan charged with embezzling $2.9M from insurer

Mark Gillispie · August 11, 2014 5:32 pm

FILE - In this April 2, 2014 file photo, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Acting Administrator David J. Friedman, testifies before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Auto safety regulators are often slow to grant or deny petitions from people seeking investigations into what could be serious safety problems, an Associated Press review shows. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

US agency moves slowly on investigation requests

Tom Krisher · August 11, 2014 3:30 pm

Sidiqullah holds a photograph of his brother, who went missing in Nov. 2012, during U.S. military operations in Wardak province, at a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. The U.S. failed to properly investigate civilian killings, including possible war crimes, which occurred during its military operations in Afghanistan, the international rights group Amnesty International said Monday. NATO said it investigates all credible reports of civilian casualties, without responding to the group's specific claims.(AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Report criticizes US over Afghan civilian deaths

AMIR SHAHREBECCA SANTANA · August 11, 2014 2:10 pm

Illinois postal worker gets probation in theft case

Illinois postal worker gets probation in theft case

Washington Examiner · August 10, 2014 1:54 pm

Judge rejects $324.5M settlement of tech wage case

Judge rejects $324.5M settlement of tech wage case

Michael Liedtke · August 8, 2014 11:01 pm