Tag: Waste and Fraud

POGO is one of the nation's most prominent federal-government watchdog groups. Executive Director Danielle Brian is pictured here in her office in Washington. (Photo: Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Danielle Brian’s POGO is constantly poking, prodding, exposing government waste and fraud

Neil McCabe · July 25, 2013 4:00 am

Lack of oversight in a State Department bureau's $47 million sole-source contract for justice training in Afghanistan raises serious concerns about whether U.S. taxpayer money is being spent properly, according to an alert letter sent to Secretary of State John Kerry by the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction Thursday. (AP/Mandel Ngan)

John Kerry warned about sole-source aid contract for Afghan justice training

Michal Conger · July 25, 2013 4:00 am

Two conservatives â Sen. Mike Lee, above, of Utah and Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan â introduced bills in their respective chambers to wind down the agency, which uses taxpayer-backed loans and loan guarantees to help U.S. companies sell overseas. (AP Photo/Steve C. Wilson)

The middle class or the middle men?

Mike Lee · July 24, 2013 4:00 am

NASA officials under-reported conference costs by 70 percent

Kelly Cohen · July 23, 2013 4:00 am

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau approved a $167,000 training program in "consumer law" to agency employees, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch. (Examiner/Graeme Jennings)

CFPB lawyers lacked banking law training

Richard Pollock · July 23, 2013 4:00 am

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IG: Afghan contractor fraud killing American soldiers

Paul Bedard · July 23, 2013 4:00 am

Like the city it once helped define, Detroit's once stately Grande Ballroom has fallen on hard times. (Wikimedia Commons photo)

Top 10 reasons Detroit went bankrupt

Eric Boehm · July 20, 2013 4:00 am

The headquarters of the Consumer Financial Protection Board, 1700 G St. NW in Washington. (Photo: Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Congressmen fume at CFPB’s lavish renovation expenses

Richard Pollock · July 19, 2013 4:00 am

President Obama has nominated Michael A. Carroll as inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International Development, an appointment that would fill a nearly two-year vacancy. (Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

President Obama nominates USAID IG, but many watchdog vacancies remain unfilled

Michal Conger · July 18, 2013 4:00 am

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State watchdogs: Iowa pays companies $50,000 and more in incentives per new job

Sheena Dooley · July 18, 2013 4:00 am

Sens. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, left, and Tom Coburn, R-Okla., wish to prohibit federal employees from doing union work on the taxpayers' dime. (AP File)

Bill introduced in Senate to curb ‘official time’ for federal employees doing union work

Mark Flatten · July 17, 2013 4:00 am

President Obama (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama stimulus fund recipients spending tax dollars without explanation

Kelly Cohen · July 17, 2013 4:00 am