Tag: Follow the Money

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GSA travel card fraud, abuse still a problem despite repeated reform calls

Sarah Bedford · September 29, 2014 6:49 pm

Federal agencies are inflating the number of economically-disadvantaged small businesses they say they're contracting with, handing out more than $400 million to ineligible firms last year alone. (iStock Photo)

Feds gave $400 million in contracts to ineligible firms

Sarah Bedford · September 28, 2014 9:00 am

Marine One flies over flooded areas of Coralville, Iowa, as President Bush surveys damage from flooding in the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City areas on June 19, 2008. (AP/Liz Martin)

FEMA makes a $12 million mistake on Iowa flood

Sarah Bedford · September 27, 2014 9:00 am

Fifty-six percent of Americans now believe the country's economic and political systems are stacked against them -- the highest number in 22 years, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. (iStock Photo)

Earmarks never went away — they changed addresses

Sarah Bedford · September 26, 2014 9:00 am

The department's anti-trust division paid $8.4 million hiring expert witnesses when none was necessary. (iStock)

Feds paid millions for unneeded expert witnesses

Richard Pollock · September 25, 2014 10:00 am

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx was asked to provide Congress with documentation of the project-selection process. (AP/Cliff Owen)

$4.2 billion DOT program hands out unjustified stimulus grants, IG reports

Sarah Bedford · September 25, 2014 9:00 am

The Vieques Sports City Complex was never built because an environmentalist lawsuit dragged on unresolved for nearly a decade before it was settled. (iStock)

Apathetic HUD officials lose $10.8 million on failed Puerto Rican sports complex

Mark Tapscott · September 23, 2014 6:00 pm

SEC officials said the widespread securities violations would have been difficult to detect were it not for the whistleblower. (iStock)

SEC hands whistleblower record-breaking $30 million award

Sarah Bedford · September 22, 2014 7:56 pm

Three Florida women will serve lengthy prison terms and make more than $2.4 million in restitution for their participation in a $20 million scheme to defraud Medicare. (iStock Photo)

Three Florida women get slammer for Medicare fraud

Mark Tapscott · September 19, 2014 6:00 pm

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Feds spend $167 million, audit $150K

Sarah Bedford · September 19, 2014 9:00 am

In August 2011, investigators got a memo recommending canceling the towers, but the they were built anyway. (iStock)

National Security

State Department spent millions on six towers nobody wants in Afghanistan

Mark Tapscott · September 18, 2014 11:00 am

Married couple convicted of health care fraud

Married couple convicted of health care fraud

Washington Examiner · September 17, 2014 3:07 pm