Tag: FMCS

Hardly anybody outside the arbitration industry had ever heard of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, or its current director, George Cohen. (AP Photo)

EXAMINER EDITORIAL: Wasteful agency’s director resigns following Washington Examiner watchdog series

Editorial Writer · November 26, 2013 5:00 am

Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Director George Cohen is resigning only days after learning he is a target of a congressional inquiry spurred by a Washington Examiner series. (AP Photo)

Head of scandal-plagued FMCS to resign following Washington Examiner series

Luke Rosiak · November 26, 2013 5:00 am

House Government and Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., sent letters to 15 insurers, including Aetna, BlueCross BlueShield and Cigna, demanding receipt by Dec. 13 of "all communications" between company employees and the Executive Office of the President, dating back to March 2010. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

FMCS under congressional fire after Examiner report on widespread waste and fraud

Luke Rosiak · November 14, 2013 5:00 am

Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service employees' use of purchase cards amounted to rampant violation of federal procurement law, specialists say, and when an employee wrote to the General Services Administration to ask for a compliance review, the agency director and another top official forced her to send a âretraction,â according to documents reviewed by the Washington Examiner. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Part Three: FMCS executives forced whistleblower to retract fraud complaint

Luke Rosiak · October 3, 2013 4:00 am

Top officials of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service lavished taxpayer funds on themselves, made the phantom company of a recently retired employee one of their largest vendors and spent tens of thousands of dollars on storage spaces near their homes, where they kept old beds and toys. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Reckless spending goes straight to the top at FMCS

Luke Rosiak · October 2, 2013 4:00 am

The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is an obscure runaway government agency where the median annual salary is $120,000. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Bureaucrats at tiny federal agency FMCS buy legions of luxuries with purchase cards

Luke Rosiak · October 1, 2013 4:00 am