Tag: Inspectors General

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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

Congress exempted the Federal Aviation Administration from major civil service and procurement rules 19 years ago. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty images)

IG: FAA has done little with major reforms approved in 1995

Mark Tapscott · November 25, 2014 10:00 am

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

n this Feb. 7, 2012, file photo, Ohio Gov. John Kasich delivers his State of the State address at Wells Academy/Steubenville High School in Steubenville, Ohio.(AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

IG report may be a problem for possible Kasich 2016 presidential run

Mark Tapscott · November 23, 2014 7:00 pm

30,000 missing emails from IRS’ Lerner recovered

Susan Ferrechio · November 22, 2014 11:39 am

DOT officials haven't decide when fixes will be made for one-fifth of their 5,600 cybersecurity problems. (iStock Photo)

IG finds big DOT cybersecurity flaws

Mark Tapscott · November 22, 2014 10:00 am

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

An United States Postal Office employee puts a bundle of mail onto a machine at the Processing and Distribution Center on December 16, 2013 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Stephen Lam/Getty images)

U.S. mail moves much slower in San Francisco than anywhere else

Mark Tapscott · November 21, 2014 10:00 am

Delays, ineptitude mar Maya Lin public art project in Washington, Oregon

Sarah Bedford · November 19, 2014 2:22 pm

Medicare's error rate for payments to hospitals, doctors and other service providers has spiraled upward from 8.5 percent to 10 percent in one year, according to a government watchdog. (iStock)

Growing Medicare error payments rate cost $45 billion in 2013, IG reports

Mark Tapscott · November 18, 2014 11:15 pm

Social Security IG probe turns up check-cashing Texas daughter’s dead parents

Sarah Bedford · November 18, 2014 10:00 am