Tag: Waste and Fraud

Medicaid Accidentally Overpays $88M to Alabama

Medicaid Accidentally Overpays $88M to Alabama

Jeryl Bier · August 29, 2013 11:44 am

Social Security disability recipients condemn freeloaders

Luke Rosiak · August 29, 2013 4:00 am

The federal government has been too big for a long time, and both parties are responsible for its excessive growth. (Thinkstock)

Examiner Editorial: Dig in for a long war against Washington’s self-dealers

Washington Examiner · August 28, 2013 4:00 am

One black-owned business said it was experiencing economic hardship in part because it had suffered through the employment of "disadvantaged" workers from government programs who lacked an appropriate work ethic. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Small Business Administration hardly bothers with ‘economic disadvantage’ scrutiny for minority contractors

Luke Rosiak · August 28, 2013 4:00 am

Darryl Layne Woods, the former chairman and chief financial officer of Mainstreet Bank in Ashland, Mo., used $381,487 in Troubled Asset Relief Program funds to buy himself a luxury vacation condo in Southwest Florida. (Thinkstock)

Bank official stole government money? Not surprised

Kelly Cohen · August 27, 2013 4:00 am

Documents show six top administrators of the Veterans Health Administration received performance bonuses in excess of $16,000 last year. (Examiner File)

Nothing stopped VA’s fat bonuses, not even dead vets, dirty hospitals

Mark Flatten · August 27, 2013 4:00 am

Dancing With The Stars (courtesy photo)

Why work when you can watch TV at a New York steam plant?

Kelly Cohen · August 27, 2013 4:00 am

Sen. Tom Coburn: We need a constitutional convention to take back our country

Sen. Tom Coburn: We need a constitutional convention to take back our country

Tom Coburn · August 24, 2013 4:00 am

FILE - In this June 3, 2013 file photo, farmer David Schwabauer, a partner/manager of Leavens Ranches, a fourth-generation avocado and lemon grower, tours his property's irrigation system in Moorpark, Calif. For years Schwabauer has watched groundwater levels retreat with higher demand from encroaching development, forcing ranchers and farmers to sink piping deeper into the earth or drill expensive, new wells for irrigation. In the heat of summer, he pumps 3,000 gallons a minute for his thirsty trees. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Energy and Environment

Millions spent on California water-storage plan that leaks

Associated Press · August 24, 2013 4:00 am

The U.S. Postal Service hasn't given a complete review and update to its "Employee and Labor Relations Manual" since it was published in 1978. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

Post Office hasn’t given labor manual a complete update in 35 years

Kelly Cohen · August 23, 2013 4:00 am

The USDA's Risk Management Agency issued $22 million in subsidies for people who have been dead for one to two years. (Thinkstock)

To deal with waste, fraud, and abuse, cut spending

Veronique de Rugy · August 22, 2013 4:00 am

Louisiana Health Cooperative, Inc.'s Chief Executive Officer Terry Shilling signed a $4 million four-year contract with a consulting firm last year in which he is a principal, according to documents obtained by the Washington Examiner. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Obamacare’s Louisiana co-op riddled with self-dealing, conflicts of interest

Richard Pollock · August 21, 2013 4:00 am