Tag: Inspectors General

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Pentagon lacks proper documentation of fair prices on $70 billion in contracts

Mark Tapscott · October 10, 2014 6:00 pm

White House aide never fully grilled about prostitutes

Susan Crabtree · October 9, 2014 12:36 pm

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Federal agency honchos killed independent probe when IG turned sights on them

Luke Rosiak · October 9, 2014 9:00 am

A housing program in Chicago spent millions of taxpayer dollars on projects that should have been covered by income from the rent it was collecting, a watchdog report found. (iStock)

Chicago misused HUD housing grants

Sarah Bedford · October 8, 2014 6:00 pm

Sloan Gibson, deputy VA secretary, said the agency is moving as quickly as the law allows in getting rid of executives responsible for widespread falsification of patient records to hide long wait times. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Veterans Affairs executive defends pace of agency discipline in scandal

Mark Flatten · October 8, 2014 5:51 pm

Packages wait to be sorted in a Post Office in Atlanta. (AP/David Goldman)

Delayed upgrades cost Postal Service

Sarah Bedford · October 8, 2014 4:40 pm

Four VA execs targeted for termination, but no one has actually been fired yet

Mark Flatten · October 7, 2014 8:08 pm

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Auditors catch DOT staffers gaining millions in illegal cash with government travel cards

Mark Tapscott · October 7, 2014 5:00 pm

A car in California gets an emissions test. (Getty file photo/Justin Sullivan)

Energy and Environment

EPA lacks info on its vehicle fleet

Sarah Bedford · October 7, 2014 9:00 am

The State Department's Office of Inspector General has released another "management alert" detailing rampant mismanagement within the agency, much of it during Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's tenure. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty images)

Beltway Confidential

State Dept. inspector general: More evidence of rampant mismanagement under Hillary Clinton

Becket Adams · October 6, 2014 10:03 pm

"We determined that programs and sites routinely paid more than necessary when acquiring software licenses," the IG said in a Sept. 30 memorandum from Inspector General Gregory H. Friedman to DOE Secretary Ernst Moniz. (iStock)

Energy officials overpay for software

Richard Pollock · October 6, 2014 5:10 pm

âGiven VAâs history of misleading statements regarding a range of issues, I hope the IG will treat the department with much more scrutiny in the future,â Miller said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Veterans Affairs IG missed wait-time scandal’s warning signs for a decade

Mark Flatten · October 6, 2014 9:00 am