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Energy and Environment

‘Gasland’ scandal ignited at EPA

Ron Arnold -

July 12, 2013 4:00 am

Cindy Harrington was caught performing a flip on a trapeze after she began collecting federal disability because of a reported neck injury sustained while lifting a mail tray. Harrington collected more than $193,000 in disability payments, using some of the money to buy a boat called âFree Ride.â She eventually pleaded guilty to fraud charges.
(Photos courtesy U.S. Postal Service Inspector General)

Fraud rampant in fed disability program

Mark Flatten -

July 12, 2013 4:00 am

More than 140 computer desktops, printers, TVs, cameras, computer mice, and keyboards were mistakenly destroyed over a

Commerce Department mistakenly destroyed 144 ‘infected’ laptops, printers, other IT equipment

Kelly Cohen -

July 11, 2013 4:00 am

Consumer Finance Protection Board officials are spending $95 million renovating their headquarters building seen here at 1700 G Street, NW, in the nation's capital. The structure was building in the 1970s. (Photo by Graeme Jennings, Washington Examiner)

Costs spiral for CFPB’s lavish new headquarters as Congress fumes

Richard Pollock -

July 11, 2013 4:00 am

Colleges and universities are granted money from the Small Business Administration in the Small Business Development Center Program to counsel small businesses. (Thinkstock)

Business

Study sees no harm from ending SBA program

Kelly Cohen -

July 10, 2013 4:00 am

Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., said

House panel hears Labor Department plan to fight federal worker disability fraud

Mark Flatten -

July 10, 2013 4:00 am

In 2011 and 2012, the U.S. Postal Service paid out $6.84 billion in overtime. (AP File)

Postal Service pays too much overtime, IG audit finds

Kelly Cohen -

July 10, 2013 4:00 am

Rep. Mike Michaud, D-Maine, said he hopes the Department of Veterans Affairs will respond to requests from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee for emails about training conferences. (AP File)

House panels deploy subpoenas, new website in quest for VA documents

Mark Flatten -

July 10, 2013 4:00 am

Millions spent by the State Department in grants to foreign agencies for Afghan reconstruction were never audited. (AP File)

Hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. Afghan aid given without audits

Michal Conger -

July 10, 2013 4:00 am

Stonewalling by the Department of Veterans Affairs over its lavish spending on a pair of training conferences in Orlando, Fla., triggered a subpoena Tuesday from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

House panel issues subpoenas for VA training conference documents

Washington Examiner -

July 9, 2013 4:00 am

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