Tag: Waste and Fraud

The Pentagon building is seen in this undated aerial photo. (Photo by U.S. Air Force/Getty images)

DOD can’t track its vast real estate holdings

Mark Tapscott · September 20, 2014 6:00 pm

Three Florida women will serve lengthy prison terms and make more than $2.4 million in restitution for their participation in a $20 million scheme to defraud Medicare. (iStock Photo)

Three Florida women get slammer for Medicare fraud

Mark Tapscott · September 19, 2014 6:00 pm

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Feds spend $167 million, audit $150K

Sarah Bedford · September 19, 2014 9:00 am

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Beltway Confidential

Poll: Americans estimate federal government wastes 51 cents on the dollar

Paul Gonzalez · September 18, 2014 5:20 pm

A Michigan public housing commission is shot through with conflicts of interests, including two top officials with family members benefiting from the federal program, according to a government watchdog. (iStock)

Officials’ kin on public housing dole

Mark Tapscott · September 17, 2014 9:00 am

MIAMI, DEC. 23: Certified Enrollment Specialist, Yanelis Diaz, helps people sign up during the initial launch of www.healthcare.gov. (Getty images/Joe Raedle)

Healthcare.gov got go-ahead despite flaws

Sarah Bedford · September 16, 2014 8:01 pm

The Missile Defense Agency shows a $73 million contractor of missiles lined in a row.

DOD unit ignored audit, overpaid millions

Sarah Bedford · September 16, 2014 12:00 pm

Retail chains that accept food stamps are fighting a regulatory initiative to make public store-by-store data on their participation in the $80 billion government program. (AP Photo/Allen Breed)

Retailers want food stamp data secret

Luke Rosiak · September 15, 2014 7:09 pm

A Department of Veterans Affairs employee who remodeled her home using taxpayer dollars was sentenced to four years of probation after pleading guilty to one count of theft in federal court. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Fed used tax dollars to build dream house

Mark Flatten · September 15, 2014 6:58 pm

"The bottom line is that it appears we've created a government that the Afghans simply cannot afford," saidÃÂ John F. Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Corruption still huge in Afghanistan: SIGAR

Mark Tapscott · September 14, 2014 6:00 pm

Farmers slice open the green poppy bulbs, full raw opium, the main ingredient in heroin, on a poppy field in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq)

Afghans headed to ‘narco-criminal state’

Mark Tapscott · September 13, 2014 11:31 am

A Philadelphia-based federal contracting firm's main shareholder faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to pretending a disabled veteran controlled her company in order to secure contracts from the General Services Administration. (iStock Photo)

Veterans preference fraud puts Philly woman in jail

Sarah Bedford · September 12, 2014 9:00 am