Waste and Fraud

Politics

John McCain: Gov’t wasting $294 billion on expired programs

Kelly Cohen -

May 7, 2015 4:18 pm

Postal Service mail vehicles sit in a parking lot at a mail distribution center on February 18, 2015 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Mismanagement cost Postal Service $21 million extra for vehicle maintenance

Ethan Barton -

May 6, 2015 4:58 pm

Government agencies with big spending also have big waste

Ethan Barton -

May 2, 2015 9:00 am

Todd Zinser, the inspector general at the Department of Commerce, abruptly cleaned out his office Wednesday evening amid a congressional investigation and public calls from lawmakers for President Obama to remove him. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Commerce watchdog spent quarter-million on private law firm

Sarah Bedford -

May 1, 2015 4:02 pm

Valid identification numbers were missing from 800,000 Colorado claims in 2011. (iStock Photo)

Healthcare

Medicaid frauds may have gotten up to $213 million from federal government

Ethan Barton -

April 23, 2015 10:51 pm

Education

Politically-connected nonprofit can’t prove how it spent $1.8m in grant funds

Ethan Barton -

April 23, 2015 8:03 pm

President Barack Obama, joined by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, left, and Chicanos Por La Causa's Edmundo Hidalgo, right, and David Adame, steps onto a putting green outside a home in a housing development, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Feds paid $23 million to unqualified mortgage borrowers that system missed

Ethan Barton -

April 23, 2015 2:50 pm

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, joined at right by Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., heads to a meeting of House Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

IRS diverted millions from taxpayer assistance to pay for employee bonuses

Sarah Bedford -

April 22, 2015 4:33 pm

The Shorandam Industrial Park, which was funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, is home to just four Afghan companies, according to a report made public Tuesday by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.Â (Photo: www.army.mil)

Taxpayer-funded facilities in Afghanistan sit empty, without power

Sarah Bedford -

April 22, 2015 1:49 pm

U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. John P. de Jongh participates in a meeting dealing with healthcare at the Southern Governors' Association convention in Little Rock, Ark., Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

Environmental Protection Agency may take over some Virgin Island programs

Ethan Barton -

April 21, 2015 6:01 pm

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Tag: Waste and Fraud

John McCain: Gov’t wasting $294 billion on expired programs

Mismanagement cost Postal Service $21 million extra for vehicle maintenance

Government agencies with big spending also have big waste

Commerce watchdog spent quarter-million on private law firm

Medicaid frauds may have gotten up to $213 million from federal government

Politically-connected nonprofit can’t prove how it spent $1.8m in grant funds

Feds paid $23 million to unqualified mortgage borrowers that system missed

IRS diverted millions from taxpayer assistance to pay for employee bonuses

Taxpayer-funded facilities in Afghanistan sit empty, without power

Environmental Protection Agency may take over some Virgin Island programs

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