Tag: Follow the Money

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$500 billion a year in taxes lost to loopholes

Ethan Barton · December 9, 2014 8:23 pm

A North Carolina nonprofit awarded billions of tax dollars over the years by the U.S. Agency for International Development keeps a revolving door swinging for former government officials while spending heavily to lobby Congress to keep the federal money pouring into its corporate treasury. (iStock)

Revolving door lets USAID officials get jobs with major N.C. contractor

Sarah Bedford, Richard Pollock · December 9, 2014 10:00 am

A con artist fooled more than 100 Drug Enforcement Administration employees into investing in a Ponzi scheme for almost two decades. (iStock Photo)

DEA agents fooled for 20 years by Ponzi schemer paid with taxpayer funds

Luke Rosiak · December 4, 2014 9:31 pm

It's virtually impossible to gauge the full extent of federal expenditures, because government agencies don't have a unified method of reporting how much they spend, a congressional watchdog said. (iStock Photo)

Comptroller says feds improperly reported $619 billion

Sarah Bedford · December 3, 2014 8:00 pm

Baptists paid $183 million for four months of illegal immigrant childcare

Mark Tapscott · December 3, 2014 6:55 pm

FEMA unsure of major disaster costs

Mark Tapscott · November 26, 2014 10:00 am

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IRS gave out $1 billion in fraudulent refunds for prisoners

Sarah Bedford · November 25, 2014 8:09 pm

Four Environmental Protection Agency employees have been on paid administrative leave for more than a year. (iStock Photo)

Legions of federal workers on paid leave for months

Luke Rosiak · November 25, 2014 7:10 pm

The Federal Employees Compensation Act costs the federal government more than $3 billion every year, with the postal service soaking up 40 percent of all such expenses. (iStock)

Postal worker admits to $250,000 disability scam

Sarah Bedford · November 24, 2014 5:12 pm

Another Wall Street titan cashes in with top job at Treasury Dept.

Mark Tapscott · November 23, 2014 10:00 am

The hospice company forged Medicare claims that showed its nurses had visited their terminally ill patients when, in fact, they had not. (iStock)

Hospice owner faces prison for Medicare fraud

Sarah Bedford · November 22, 2014 6:00 pm

An estimated 6,000 IRS employees have outside jobs or are involved in extracurricular businesses, but only half of them are doing so with permission from their superiors, according to a Department of the Treasury watchdog.Â (iStock)

IRS thinks its employees’ income info should be kept away from investigators

Mark Tapscott · November 21, 2014 10:00 am