Tag: Inspectors General

One of the nation's largest dialysis services companies has agreed to a $350 million settlement of a lawsuit filed by an employee-turned-whistleblower under the federal False Claims Act. (iStock)

Whistleblower to share $350m settlement with dialysis service

Mark Tapscott · November 3, 2014 7:00 pm

The HUD IG's report documented in detail that Rotan, Texas, officials failed at every turn with 86 housing units.

Big HUD problems in tiny Texas town

Mark Tapscott · November 3, 2014 10:00 am

Employees of an obscure Department of State office responsible for planning information technology investments at the heart of U.S. diplomacy spend "comparatively little" time on that task, according to a government watchdog's report. (iStock)

State Department IT strategic investments planners do little actual planning

Mark Tapscott · November 2, 2014 5:54 pm

Members of the U.S. Park Police Horse Mounted Unit, walk past the House side of the Capitol. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

IG cites bureaucratic ‘dysfunction’ in Park Police search for missing senior

Sarah Bedford · November 1, 2014 4:31 pm

Security flaws at government agency endanger private financial information of millions of consumers. (iStock Photo)

IG sees massive security flaws in CFPB’s consumer financial info database

Richard Pollock · October 31, 2014 5:34 pm

The Federal Reserve faces a serious challenge in finishing and enforcing the bank regulations required by the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law, the central bank's inspector general is warning. (iStock Photo)

IG: Dodd-Frank a major challenge for the Fed

Joseph Lawler · October 30, 2014 3:25 pm

More than 90 percent of the world's opium poppy is produced in Afghanistan. (AP/Rahmat Gul)

Despite U.S. efforts, Afghan opium trade thrives

Sarah Bedford · October 30, 2014 9:00 am

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Questions linger after DHS watchdog’s strained departure

Susan Crabtree · October 29, 2014 9:06 pm

Veterans Affairs acting Inspector General Richard Griffin, left, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014, before the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Veterans Affairs IG denies damning 2008 report on wait-time abuses was hidden

Mark Flatten · October 28, 2014 2:34 pm

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National Security

Lax cybersecurity risks personal data

Sarah Bedford · October 27, 2014 7:19 pm

The Department of Homeland Security's independent government watchdog told a House panel on Friday that the Health and Human Services Department has "mismanaged" money and efforts to address a possible Ebola outbreak. (AP Photo)

Inspector general: DHS ‘mismanaged’ funds to address Ebola

Sean Lengell · October 24, 2014 4:40 pm

This laptop was left unsecured on top of a bay of lockers at the General Services Administration Central Office.Â

IG takes sensitive docs, laptops from new GSA office, unmissed by employees

Sarah Bedford · October 23, 2014 8:33 pm