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The Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons soaked up a quarter of the agency's budget last year. (iStock Photo)

Federal prison costs skyrocketing despite shrinking inmate population

Sarah Bedford -

January 17, 2015 10:00 am

Companies agree to $44.5m settlement for falsely billing federal agencies

Ethan Barton -

January 15, 2015 8:35 pm

Afghan National Police officers carry boxes of equipment during their graduation ceremony at a National Police training center in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, August 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Pentagon paid half million for buildings that ‘melted,’ had to be rebuilt

Sarah Bedford -

January 15, 2015 10:00 am

The owners of a Houston mental health clinic billed Medicare for treatments that weren't needed or performed. (iStock Photo)

Healthcare

Houston docs defraud Medicare for $97M with patients ‘watching TV, coloring’

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January 14, 2015 5:15 pm

The United States v. June case boils down to this: Can the federal government actively conceal material evidence in order to escape liability? (iStock Photo)

Federal contractor nabbed in coverup on $6.5 million Obama recovery project

Sarah Bedford -

January 13, 2015 9:51 pm

Afghan police recruits who just finished their first training at the police academy, line up as they arrive with their sleeping bags at a police station in Kabul on Sunday, March 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

U.S. paying ‘ghost police’ in Pentagon-backed Afghan National Police force

Sarah Bedford -

January 12, 2015 10:00 am

Federal officials running dozens of overlapping programs that provide disabled or low-income Americans with transportation to and from doctor's appointments have no idea how much they spend to do so. (iStock Photo)

Feds have no idea how much they spend on transportation for disabled, aged

Sarah Bedford -

January 9, 2015 7:23 pm

HHS execs doing good and living large, flying first class around the world

HHS execs doing good and living large, flying first class around the world

Luke Rosiak -

January 9, 2015 10:00 am

A laborer works on the grounds of the American-built 105MW Tarakhil Power Plant on September 8, 2011 in Tarakhil, Afghanistan, on the outskirts of Kabul. (Photo by John Moore/Getty images)

U.S.-funded facilities barely working in Afghan camp, so feds build more

Sarah Bedford -

January 8, 2015 10:00 am

This undated handout from Elbit Systems Ltd. shows a Hermes 450 unmanned airborn vehicle (UAV) in flight.Â The drones are among the high-technology border security measures officials under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama said made it unnecessary to build a new security fence along the entire length of the U.S. border with Mexico.Â (Photo by Elbit Systems Ltd. via Getty images)

National Security

Border patrol’s drones cost $12K per hour to fly, produce little benefit or security

Sarah Bedford -

January 6, 2015 7:03 pm

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