Tag: Follow the Money

Two charged in $70 million Florida ‘virtual concierge’ fraud

Associated Press · April 9, 2014 4:00 am

Allen West, the former Florida Republican congressman, filed a complaint that four PACs siphoned off funding from his 2012 re-election campaign, using his name and Image to raise funds for themselves. The groups did little or nothingÃÂ to help WestÃÂ with the money they raised.ÃÂ (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

FEC says it’s powerless against ‘scam’ PACs that may have cost Allen West his seat

Luke Rosiak · April 9, 2014 4:00 am

CVS settles SEC investigation for $20 million

The Associated Press · April 8, 2014 7:05 pm

US jury hits Takeda, Eli Lilly with $9B penalty

Yuri Kageyama · April 8, 2014 2:32 pm

EXography: Globe-trotting honchos spend big on FMCS’ dime

Luke Rosiak · April 8, 2014 4:00 am

Heap of 00 dollar bills

Report: Government files lacking for $6 billion in contracts

Associated Press · April 7, 2014 4:00 am

John Hardy, left, and his son, Liam, 13, visit the charred remains of his wife's parents home in the Breezy Point section of the Queens borough of New York, Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

2 New Jersey towns contesting audits on Sandy aid

Associated Press · April 3, 2014 4:00 am

Rows of boxed publications are stored in an Environmental Protection Agency warehouse operated by a contractor in Blue Ash, Ohio. (EPA OIG photo)

EPA stores agency paper the expensive way, IG finds

Kelly Cohen · April 3, 2014 4:00 am

National Security

Jason Chaffetz rips USAID over ‘slush fund’ to Afghan government

Michal Conger · April 3, 2014 4:00 am

Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman held a press conference on a couple that alleged took $160,000 in welfare benefits while the husband claimed to be a Scottish aristocrat and broadcast executive. They also allegedly controlled bank accounts containing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Andrea and Colin Chisholm, of Deephaven, illegally obtained food stamps from 2005 to 2012, according to court documents. They were living in a luxury lakeside home and Colin Chisholm portrayed himself as a Scottish aristocrat who is a wealthy executive in the broadcasting industry, the document said. The couple owns a 83-foot yacht, a seaside home in Florida and had nearly $3 million in bank accounts, the document said. (AP Photo/ The Star Tribune, Richard Sennott)

Minnesota couple arrested in Florida for welfare fraud

Associated Press · April 2, 2014 4:00 am

Ex-New Jersey official convicted of corruption

Washington Examiner · April 1, 2014 4:00 am

In this June 4, 2013, file photo, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Executives from manufacturing giant Caterpillar Inc. are heading to Capitol Hill to explain what Levin calls an aggressive strategy to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Carl Levin says Caterpillar avoided billions in taxes

Associated Press · April 1, 2014 4:00 am