Tag: Watchdog

Assemblyman faces staff cut over ethics findings

Assemblyman faces staff cut over ethics findings

Michael Virtanen · June 11, 2014 8:33 pm

Toyota expands recall for air bag glitch

Toyota expands recall for air bag glitch

Washington Examiner · June 11, 2014 9:23 am

Illinois state Rep. Derrick Smith, center, listens to his attorney Victor Henderson, right, at the federal building Tuesday, June 10, 2014, in Chicago after a jury convicted him of bribery for taking $7,000 from a purported day care operator seeking a state grant. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Illinois Rep. Derrick Smith convicted of bribery

Michael Tarm · June 10, 2014 10:13 pm

Report: Social Security judges rubber-stamp claims

Report: Social Security judges rubber-stamp claims

Stephen Ohlemacher · June 10, 2014 9:52 pm

FILE - In this 2005 file photo, a workman slides a dustmop over the floor at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Va., near Washington. Fifteen CIA employees were found to have committed sexual, racial or other types of harassment last year, including a supervisor who was removed from the job after engaging in "bullying, hostile behavior," and an operative who was sent home from an overseas post for inappropriately touching female colleagues, according to an internal CIA document obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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CIA disciplines 15 officers in harassment cases

Ken Dilanian · June 10, 2014 9:45 pm

Illegal profits: A look at insider trading

Ken Sweet · June 10, 2014 9:26 pm

Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki and Veterans Affairs Undersecretary for Health Robert Petzel are sworn in before testifying to the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee about wait times veterans face to get medical care May 15, 2014 in Washington. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Faces of scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs

Mark Flatten · June 10, 2014 3:00 pm

State Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, gives a thumbs up to Sen. Bill Berryhill, R-Twain Harte, unseen, after he voted for Hill's campaign reform measure at the Capitol in Sacramento,Calif., Monday, June 9, 2014. By a 35-1 vote the Senate approved Hill's SB831, that creates new disclosure laws for travel-related gifts and bans elected official from requesting payments be made on their behalf to nonprofit organizations. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Senate approves tighter gift bans, ethics rules

Judy Lin · June 10, 2014 1:59 am

Visitors leave the Richard L. Roudebush Veterans Administration Medical Center in Indianapolis on Monday. An audit of VA hospitals and clinics nationwide has found that nearly 275 Indiana patients are still waiting for initial appointments at facilities in Indianapolis and northern Indiana 90 days or more after requesting them. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Prosecutions, firings needed to root out corruption at Department of Veterans Affairs, IG testifies

Mark Flatten · June 10, 2014 1:46 am

In this May 28, 2014 photo, Illinois state Rep. Derrick Smith enters federal court for the beginning of jury selection in his corruption trial in Chicago. During closing arguments Monday, June 9, 2014, prosecutors said that Smith placed his own welfare above his constituents by taking a $7,000 bribe from a day care operator seeking a state grant. An attorney for Smith, however, told jurors a campaign worker-turned-informant hoodwinked the Chicago Democrat to justify cooperation payments from his FBI handlers. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Closing arguments made at Illinois lawmaker trial

Michael Tarm · June 10, 2014 12:42 am

Ex-Interior Department official accused of harassment, favoritism

Kelly Cohen · June 9, 2014 10:07 pm

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Watchdog group hit with subpoena from Department of Veterans Affairs inspector general seeking whistleblower identities

Mark Flatten · June 9, 2014 6:16 pm