Tag: Waste and Fraud

A housing program in Chicago spent millions of taxpayer dollars on projects that should have been covered by income from the rent it was collecting, a watchdog report found. (iStock)

Chicago misused HUD housing grants

Sarah Bedford · October 8, 2014 6:00 pm

Sloan Gibson, deputy VA secretary, said the agency is moving as quickly as the law allows in getting rid of executives responsible for widespread falsification of patient records to hide long wait times. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Veterans Affairs executive defends pace of agency discipline in scandal

Mark Flatten · October 8, 2014 5:51 pm

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Auditors catch DOT staffers gaining millions in illegal cash with government travel cards

Mark Tapscott · October 7, 2014 5:00 pm

A car in California gets an emissions test. (Getty file photo/Justin Sullivan)

Energy and Environment

EPA lacks info on its vehicle fleet

Sarah Bedford · October 7, 2014 9:00 am

Crist reminding voters of fraud at Scott’s company

Brendan Farrington · October 6, 2014 10:10 pm

"We determined that programs and sites routinely paid more than necessary when acquiring software licenses," the IG said in a Sept. 30 memorandum from Inspector General Gregory H. Friedman to DOE Secretary Ernst Moniz. (iStock)

Energy officials overpay for software

Richard Pollock · October 6, 2014 5:10 pm

Lax U.N. oversight of the international fund to pay Afghan National Police salaries has contributed to the diversion of up to $200 million by Afghanistan's Interior Ministry for questionable practices, according to a U.S. watchdog agency. (AP Photo)

Up to $200 million missing after lax UN oversight of Afghan police: Watchdog

Charles Hoskinson · October 6, 2014 4:39 pm

âGiven VAâs history of misleading statements regarding a range of issues, I hope the IG will treat the department with much more scrutiny in the future,â Miller said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Veterans Affairs IG missed wait-time scandal’s warning signs for a decade

Mark Flatten · October 6, 2014 9:00 am

The Postal Service has issued 12,000 Voyager credit cards used by contractors to buy 1.6 billions gallons of diesel fuel to carry the mail since 2005, the USPS inspector general said in a report made public Friday. (iStock)

Post office’s contractor gas credit card program is ‘not manageable,’ IG says

Mark Tapscott · October 5, 2014 2:43 pm

Susan M. Taylor, the subject of a scathing VA inspector general's report released Friday, landed the new job as director of procurement planning at the Department of Energy and was slated to start Sunday, Oct. 5.

UPDATED: Disgraced VA official landed, then lost new job at Energy Department

Mark Flatten · October 2, 2014 8:20 pm

Report: $247M FEMA High-Tech Disaster Relief System May Not Work

Jeryl Bier · October 2, 2014 11:15 am

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D.C. workers collect unemployment payments while on city payroll, IG finds

Mark Flatten · October 2, 2014 10:00 am