Tag: Inspectors General

A recent New York Post story said that Census employees were fabricating unemployment data to mislead the public for political purposes. (iStock)

House GOP: Commerce ‘ambushed’ whistleblower interview

Luke Rosiak · September 18, 2014 2:29 pm

In August 2011, investigators got a memo recommending canceling the towers, but the they were built anyway. (iStock)

National Security

State Department spent millions on six towers nobody wants in Afghanistan

Mark Tapscott · September 18, 2014 11:00 am

Assistant Inspector General for Healthcare Inspections John Daigh, from left, Department of Veterans Affairs Acting Inspector General Richard Griffin; retired Medical Director Samuel Foote, of the Diamond Community-Based Outpatient Center, Phoenix VA Health Care System, Veterans Health Administration; and Medical Director Katherine Mitchell of the Iraq and Afghanistan Post-Deployment Center, Phoenix VA Health Care System, Veterans Health Administration, testify during a House Committee on Veterans' Affairs hearing on "Scheduling Manipulation and Veteran Deaths in Phoenix: Examination of the OIG's Final Report" on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Delays contributed to patient deaths at veterans’ hospital, IG concedes

Mark Flatten · September 17, 2014 11:08 pm

Assistant Inspector General for Healthcare Inspections John Daigh, Jr., left, and Veterans Affairs Acting Inspector General Richard Griffin testify during a House Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Veterans Affairs IG couldn’t see records that didn’t exist for dead vets

Mark Flatten · September 17, 2014 7:58 pm

One reason healthcare costs continue to spiral upward despite Obamacare may have something to do with the federal government's left hand not knowing how much its right hand is paying for certain drugs. (iStock Photo)

Medicare’s right hand doesn’t know what its left hand pays for cancer drugs

Mark Tapscott · September 17, 2014 9:00 am

A Michigan public housing commission is shot through with conflicts of interests, including two top officials with family members benefiting from the federal program, according to a government watchdog. (iStock)

Officials’ kin on public housing dole

Mark Tapscott · September 17, 2014 9:00 am

Dr. Sam Foote worked several decades at the Phoenix VA Medical Center. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Wallace)

Whistleblower calls IG report clearing VA of deaths a ‘whitewash’ or cover up

Mark Flatten · September 16, 2014 10:00 pm

A Department of Veterans Affairs employee who remodeled her home using taxpayer dollars was sentenced to four years of probation after pleading guilty to one count of theft in federal court. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

‘Inexcusable’ changes in Veterans Affairs IG report slammed by veterans’ groups

Mark Flatten · September 16, 2014 8:14 pm

MIAMI, DEC. 23: Certified Enrollment Specialist, Yanelis Diaz, helps people sign up during the initial launch of www.healthcare.gov. (Getty images/Joe Raedle)

Healthcare.gov got go-ahead despite flaws

Sarah Bedford · September 16, 2014 8:01 pm

"The community service and self-sufficiency requirement is intended to assist adult public housing residents in improving their own economic and social well-being and to give these residents a greater stake in their communities," said the Department of Housing and Urban Development's inspector general. (iStock)

No work for public housing residents

Mark Tapscott · September 16, 2014 3:57 pm

The Missile Defense Agency shows a $73 million contractor of missiles lined in a row.

DOD unit ignored audit, overpaid millions

Sarah Bedford · September 16, 2014 12:00 pm

"The bottom line is that it appears we've created a government that the Afghans simply cannot afford," saidÃÂ John F. Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Corruption still huge in Afghanistan: SIGAR

Mark Tapscott · September 14, 2014 6:00 pm