Tag: Watchdog

GAO opens new probe of CFPB ‘toxic workplace’ charges

Richard Pollock · August 1, 2014 5:00 am

FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2014, file photo, work continues on the new eastern span of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge in San Francisco. A Senate investigative report released Thursday, July 31, 2014, finds senior officials overseeing construction of the $6.5 billion eastern span of the bridge repeatedly and deliberately brushed off criticism about construction problems and sought to keep information secret as part of an "institutionalized, if not malicious, lack of transparency in the project." (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Report: Secrecy enveloped Bay Bridge construction

Juliet Williams · July 31, 2014 11:49 pm

Former Army official guilty in bribery scheme

Former Army official guilty in bribery scheme

Washington Examiner · July 31, 2014 8:15 pm

FILE - In this March 10, 2014 file photo, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) staff and journalists walk in front of the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant during a press tour in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan. A Japanese judicial panel has recommended that three former executives of the utility that operates the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant face criminal charges over their role in the disaster. A document released by the panel on Thursday, July 31, 2014 showed it voted in favor of indicting Tsunehisa Katsumata, chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Co. at the time of the crisis, along with two Vice Presidents Sakae Muto and Ichiro Takekuro. The cleanup effort continues, and its decommissioning is expected to last decades. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, Pool, File)

Panel wants TEPCO execs charged over nuke crisis

Mari Yamaguchi · July 31, 2014 12:58 pm

John Hanner, president of Aramark Correctional Services, defends before a prisons oversight committee his company's record in Ohio to the committee, saying food delays and substitutions have happened less than 1 percent of the time, Wednesday, July 30, 2014, in Columbus, Ohio. The state announced a $130,200 fine against Aramark, Wednesday for covered continued staffing shortages, unacceptable food substitutions and shortages and sanitation issues. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins)

Ohio: 2nd fine levied against prison food vendor

Andrew WelshHuggins · July 30, 2014 9:42 pm

This April 18, 2013 file photo shows an aerial view of the remains of a fertilizer plant and an apartment complex to the left, destroyed by an explosion in West, Texas. The government has failed to inspect virtually all of the chemical facilities that it considers to be at high risk for a terror attack, numbering in the thousands, and has underestimated the threat to densely populated cities, congressional investigators say. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

Terror threats at chemical plants underestimated

Hope Yen · July 30, 2014 9:06 pm

Republican gubernatorial challenger Rob Astorino speaks at a news conference in New York, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Astorino was speaking about allegations that Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration meddled with his state anti-corruption commission. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Andrew Cuomo again defends handling of corruption probe

DAVID KLEPPERFRANK ELTMAN · July 30, 2014 8:11 pm

The National Science Foundation gave two grants for collaborative research to professors at Yale and New York universities to study "systematic gender bias" in Wikipedia. (iStock)

US science group to study sexism at one of the most popular websites in the world

Kelly Cohen · July 30, 2014 6:02 pm

Former Utah Attorney General John Swallow arrives at court for his initial court appearance on bribery charges, Wednesday, July 30, 2014, in Salt Lake City. Swallow and former Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff made their first appearance as criminal defendants Wednesday, vowing to beat bribery charges and other counts. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Bribery case kicks off vs. Utah attorneys general

Michelle Price · July 30, 2014 5:35 pm

FILE - This Tuesday, April 1, 2014 file photo shows a key in the ignition switch of a 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt in Alexandria, Va. Texas attorney Robert Hilliard has sued General Motors on behalf of 658 people injured or killed in crashes allegedly caused by faulty ignition switches. The lawsuit filed Tuesday, July 29, 2014 in U.S. District Court in Manhattan names 29 people who were killed and 629 who were hurt. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)

Lawyer sues GM on behalf of 658 plaintiffs

Washington Examiner · July 30, 2014 4:33 pm

40 NY tax preparers never filed personal returns

40 NY tax preparers never filed personal returns

Washington Examiner · July 30, 2014 1:47 pm

CFPB headquarters in DC (Photo: Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

CFPB opens new investigation in bid to exonerate bureau managers on discrimination

Richard Pollock · July 30, 2014 10:00 am