Waste and Fraud

A report found that 6.5 million people born 112 years ago still have active Social Security numbers. (iStock Photo)

Billions in fraud linked to Social Security numbers assigned to dead people

Ethan Barton -

March 10, 2015 5:20 pm

Imprimis to offer competitor after outrage over 5,000-percent price hike for anti-parasite treatment.Â (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Healthcare

Millions of patients’ prescription painkillers jeopardized by DEA inaction

Ethan Barton -

March 10, 2015 9:00 am

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada gives an interview with in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington. Reid, 75, is wearing special glasses as part of his recovery from injuries suffered in a violent exercise accident in January. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Energy and Environment

Reid helped steer tax dollars to well-connected green energy operators

Sarah Bedford -

March 9, 2015 3:06 pm

Homeowners stopped making payments to the bank, and many families lost their homes to foreclosure.

California man got rich while tricking hundreds into losing their homes

Sarah Bedford -

March 7, 2015 10:00 am

Then-U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao watches students work on computers at the New Orleans Job Corps Center in New Orleans, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2007. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)

Economy

Taxpayer-funded Job Corps centers found dangerous for students and staff

Sarah Bedford -

March 6, 2015 5:52 pm

A pair of Miami healthcare workers face six years in prison for defrauding Medicare and Medicaid. (iStock Photo)

Crime

Florida provider defrauded Medicare of $63 million while playing Disney movies

Sarah Bedford -

March 6, 2015 3:13 pm

Securities and Exchange Commission officials circumvented federal salary rules to pay an employee a $315,000 salary and $120,000 in living expenses in just over a year, according to documents obtained by the Washington Examiner. (Washington Examiner)

SEC listed wrong duty station for professor so it could pay him $435,000

Luke Rosiak -

March 4, 2015 2:14 pm

Small Business Administration officials issued nearly $18 million in hurricane disaster loans to businesses without verifying whether they actually had the ability to repay the government. (AP Photo)

Government handed out millions of ill-advised loans after Hurricane Sandy

Sarah Bedford -

March 4, 2015 1:04 pm

Soldiers of the 2nd Platoon Alfa Company of Combined Team Bastogne, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and personel of Afghan National Army patrol the Watahpur river area during a visit by the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) to the Shamirkot Bridge near the forward base Honaker Miracle in Kunar province on April 14, 2013. The PRT visited the Shamirkot Bridge to make an assessment of its reconstruction. (Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images)

Pentagon classified, then declassified controversial Afghan spending data

Sarah Bedford -

March 3, 2015 6:08 pm

Beltway Confidential

Welfare fraud of the corporate kind

Timothy P. Carney -

March 2, 2015 6:13 pm

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Tag: Waste and Fraud

Millions of patients’ prescription painkillers jeopardized by DEA inaction

Reid helped steer tax dollars to well-connected green energy operators

California man got rich while tricking hundreds into losing their homes

Taxpayer-funded Job Corps centers found dangerous for students and staff

Florida provider defrauded Medicare of $63 million while playing Disney movies

SEC listed wrong duty station for professor so it could pay him $435,000

Government handed out millions of ill-advised loans after Hurricane Sandy

Pentagon classified, then declassified controversial Afghan spending data

Welfare fraud of the corporate kind

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