Tag: Mark Flatten

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki. (AP Photo)

Veterans Affairs IG says new computer system riddled with gremlins

Mark Flatten · February 4, 2013 5:00 am

Watchdog: Second VA official quits after wasteful conferences spotlighted

Mark Flatten · January 8, 2013 5:00 am

Armored police vehicles, some with rotating gun turrets, have become popular items for state and local law enforcement agencies to buy with federal funds. This one was bought to protect the annual Pumpkin Festival in New Hampshire. (Photo courtesy Sen. Tom Coburn).

DHS grants ‘like winning the lottery’ for state, local officials

Mark Flatten · December 5, 2012 5:00 am

Former VA personnel chief faulted by IG

Mark Flatten · December 3, 2012 5:00 am

House Committee on Veterans Affairs Chairman Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Florida, left, talks with veteran George White during a July 13, 2012, rally in support of a new Veterans Hospital in Kingston, Tenn. (AP Photo/Bob Fowler, Knoxville News Sentinel)

Fireworks on the Hill! House committee head erupts over VA ‘stonewalling’

Mark Flatten · November 28, 2012 5:00 am

Watchdog: Coburn report IDs $68 billion in DOD spending cuts

Mark Flatten · November 15, 2012 5:00 am

Cronyism, deceit haunt VA office that planned costly conferences

Mark Flatten · November 14, 2012 5:00 am

Rules fail to restrain big-spending VA officials

Mark Flatten · November 14, 2012 5:00 am

Raquel Thomas

Soap starlet at the center of taxpayer-financed VA drama

Mark Flatten · November 13, 2012 5:00 am

Ag watchdog spent millions on unreported conferences

Mark Flatten · November 8, 2012 5:00 am

VA faces subpoenas, hearings on conference waste

Mark Flatten · November 1, 2012 4:00 am

VA execs were encouraged to spend more on wasteful conferences

Mark Flatten · October 10, 2012 4:00 am