Tag: Waste and Fraud

Officials of the U.S. Export-Import Bank blew the agency's travel budget by millions of dollars after taking 400 first-class flights over the last three years, according to records obtained under the federal Freedom of Information Act. (iStock Photo)

Ex-Im exceeds travel budget by millions after flying first class 400 times

Luke Rosiak · September 4, 2014 7:00 pm

The Global Combat Support System-Army, a logistical support system meant to track supplies, spare parts and other equipment, was launched in 1997. (iStock)

National Security

Army can’t track spending on $4.3b system to track spending, IG finds

Mark Flatten · September 4, 2014 9:00 am

"Clay used the Medicaid identification numbers of individuals who did not know Clay or anything about her company," according to the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Middle District of North Carolina. (iStock)

North Carolina woman pleads guilty in Medicaid scam

Luke Rosiak · September 3, 2014 7:23 pm

Two dozen $165,000-a-year Immigration Court judges are on the federal payroll under the government's "official time" program, allowing them to do union work on government time. (iStock)

DOJ pays 4,000 employees to do union work at taxpayer expense

Luke Rosiak · September 3, 2014 9:00 am

Border Patrol vehicles patrol along a barrier that runs along the US-Mexico border on October 4, 2007 east of San Luis, Calif. (Photo by David McNew/Getty images)

National Security

DHS lacks plan, info to manage its $534 million vehicle fleet

Mark Tapscott · September 2, 2014 5:58 pm

Ram Hingorani faces up to two years in prison and forfeiture of all profits when he is sentenced. (iStock)

Contractor pleads guilty in $23.5 million ‘rent-a-vet’ scheme

Mark Flatten · September 2, 2014 4:36 pm

Afghan officials can't account for $3.3 billion in U.S. military aid to their country's military and security forces, according to the Pentagon's inspector general. (iStock image)

Billions in U.S. aid can’t be accounted for by Afghan officials

Mark Tapscott · September 2, 2014 9:00 am

Morgan professor gets 3 years for grant fraud

Washington Examiner · August 29, 2014 10:21 pm

The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 requiresÃÂ the 72 federal IGs to appoint whistleblower ombudsmen and to disseminate information about the rights of whistleblowers in the federal workforce. (iStock image)

Some IGs slow to publicize whistleblower rights and protections

Mark Tapscott · August 29, 2014 4:15 pm

Luis Aguilar, one of the five SEC commissioners, late Thursday issued an unusual dissent to the SEC's punishment of an accountant, calling the decisions a "wristÃÂ slap at best."ÃÂ (iStock image)

SEC is going easy on fraud: commissioner

Joseph Lawler · August 29, 2014 2:57 pm

U.S. Postal Service officials spent more than $39 million leasing trailers last year. (Getty images)

USPS leases 10k trailers but can’t track them or confirm their receipt

Mark Tapscott · August 28, 2014 1:30 pm

Food stamp fraud is so widespread that Government Accounting Office investigators found dozens of examples merely by searching online e-commerce sites like Craigslist.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Online food stamp fraud growing, GAO reports

Kelly Cohen · August 27, 2014 7:08 pm