Treasury investigators needed someone investigating them

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Some of the watchdogs who are supposed to root out fraud in the Treasury Department themselves needed to be investigated, according to documents detailing layers of wrongdoing and cover-ups by agents of the Treasury’s Office of the Inspector General.

The problems were so pervasive that an outside team had to be brought in from the Department of Labor, according to the documents that were obtained by the Washington Examiner under the federal Freedom of Information Act.

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