Tag: Follow the Money

California school superintendent faces outrage over $660,000 salary

Washington Examiner · February 27, 2014 5:00 am

People working for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission who owned stock in companies under investigation were more likely to sell shares than other investors in the months before the agency announced it was taking enforcement actions, according to a new academic paper. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Study finds SEC staff sold shares before settlements made public

Bloomberg News · February 27, 2014 5:00 am

28 new indictments in NY disability fraud case

28 new indictments in NY disability fraud case

Jennifer Peltz · February 26, 2014 5:00 am

Charles Moreau, the former mayor of Central Falls, R.I., outside leaves Federal Court in Providence, RI., Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. Moreau struck a deal that would allow him to be freed from prison after serving half his two-year sentence. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

Rhode Island ex-mayor strikes deal to get out of prison

Washington Examiner · February 26, 2014 5:00 am

Credit Suisse Group helped American customers hide as much as $10 billion in assets from the Internal Revenue Service, more than double the amount previously known, according to a U.S. Senate committee. (AP/Gaetan Bally)

Credit Suisse helped clients hide billions, Senate says

Bloomberg News · February 26, 2014 5:00 am

Missouri lawmakers divided on ethics law process

Missouri lawmakers divided on ethics law process

Jordan Shapiro · February 26, 2014 5:00 am

Former Pittsburgh police chief Nathan Harper, right, who pleaded guilty to stealing police funds by depositing them into unauthorized credit union accounts, leaves federal court in Pittsburgh with his wife, Cynthia Harper, center, and his attorney Robert Del Greco, left, after being sentenced to 18 months in prison on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Pittsburgh ex-chief gets 18 months in federal pen

Joe Mandak · February 26, 2014 5:00 am

Delayed building maintenance and repair backlogs can cost as much as $20 billion from the General Services Administration, and the departments of Energy, Homeland Security, the Interior, and Veterans' Affairs in 2012. (Thinkstock)

Deferred building maintenance, repairs cost government billions, GAO says

Kelly Cohen · February 25, 2014 5:00 am

Pittsburgh former police chief Nathan Harper is facing sentencing for conspiring to create an unauthorized slush fund from which he spent more than $30,000 on himself. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Ex-Pittsburgh chief facing federal prison or probation

Associated Press · February 25, 2014 5:00 am

EXography: Ending improper federal payments could eliminate billions in waste and fraud

EXography: Ending improper federal payments could eliminate billions in waste and fraud

Veronique de Rugy · February 25, 2014 5:00 am

"The American people expect Congress to prevent these boondoggles before they happen, not merely criticize them after the fact. That's why it's important for Congress to pass the Conference Accountability Act, which has passed the Senate unanimously in the past," said Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. (AP File)

UPDATED: New IG report finds more wasteful conference spending by NIST

Kelly Cohen · February 24, 2014 5:00 am

A woman who was the Victoria County Housing Authority commissioner for four years has been named in a three-count federal indictment charging her with theft and fraud over 15 years.

Former Texas county housing authority commissioner indicted

Associated Press · February 24, 2014 5:00 am