Waste and Fraud

The task force came under fire in November when a SIGAR report found that it spent $43 million on a gas station in Afghanistan that should have cost about $300,000. (AP Photo)

National Security

Congress to probe Pentagon’s wasteful spending in Afghanistan

Jacqueline Klimas -

December 7, 2015 9:53 pm

Former employees that members of the Task Force for Business and Stability Operations face allegations charging that they stayed in plush villas at a cost of nearly $150 million. (Photo courtesy of SIGAR)

National Security

DoD accused of wasting millions on Afghan villas

Jacqueline Klimas -

December 3, 2015 5:01 am

Energy and Environment

Jolted: Solar subsidies help rich get richer at taxpayer expense

Paul Bedard -

December 1, 2015 6:59 pm

The EPA's independent investigator is raising questions about $9,000 in bonuses awarded to a new employee within three months of her hiring date. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Energy and Environment

EPA questioned over $9,000 in bonuses for new employee

Kyle Feldscher -

November 30, 2015 5:44 pm

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Politics

Government studying how bugs react when lights are turned on

Pete Kasperowicz -

November 30, 2015 5:22 pm

Medicare made $43 billion in improper payments from June 2013 to June 2014, the report shows. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Healthcare

One in 10 government healthcare payments wrong

Paige Winfield Cunningham -

November 17, 2015 7:13 pm

Officials overpaid Social Security recipients by billions thanks to a series of administrative and reporting errors, aÂ watchdog found. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Report: Social Security paying millions to dead people

Sarah Bedford -

November 13, 2015 12:50 am

Some of the veterans whose tests were in the boxes had already died or suffered complications while waiting to learn the results of their echocardiograms. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

Whistleblower: VA officials under investigation got bonuses

Sarah Bedford -

November 12, 2015 10:32 pm

As veterans suffered, bureaucrats devised new and even more egregious abuses that are still being uncovered today.Â (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)

Opinion

It’s Veterans Day and Washington is failing veterans

Washington Examiner -

November 11, 2015 5:01 am

Immigration

Report: Government blows $3 billion to digitize one immigration form

Anna Giaritelli -

November 9, 2015 9:51 pm

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Tag: Waste and Fraud

Congress to probe Pentagon’s wasteful spending in Afghanistan

DoD accused of wasting millions on Afghan villas

Jolted: Solar subsidies help rich get richer at taxpayer expense

EPA questioned over $9,000 in bonuses for new employee

Government studying how bugs react when lights are turned on

One in 10 government healthcare payments wrong

Whistleblower: VA officials under investigation got bonuses

It’s Veterans Day and Washington is failing veterans

Report: Government blows $3 billion to digitize one immigration form

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