Tag: Waste and Fraud

The National Science Foundation gave two grants for collaborative research to professors at Yale and New York universities to study "systematic gender bias" in Wikipedia. (iStock)

US science group to study sexism at one of the most popular websites in the world

Kelly Cohen · July 30, 2014 6:02 pm

With too little work and too much free time, paralegal employees at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office were paid more than $5 million while doing nothing for four years.ÃÂ (iStock Image)

Here’s who the patent office paid millions to do little or no work; officials feared union fury

Kelly Cohen · July 29, 2014 8:09 pm

2 Fla. brothers sentenced for food stamp fraud

Washington Examiner · July 27, 2014 7:09 am

Soybeans being processed in Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan (Photo: SIGAR)

The U.S. spent $35 million trying to grow this crop in Afghanistan

Kelly Cohen · July 24, 2014 7:48 pm

The Gereshk Cold and Dry Storage Facility in Afghanistan's Helmand province. (Photo: SIGAR)

U.S. spent another $3m on an unused building in this country

Kelly Cohen · July 22, 2014 9:19 pm

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling is demanding "full, unredacted" e-mails and financial records from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau about the exploding costs for its headquarters building renovation. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Jeb Hensarling panel demands ‘full, unredacted’ records on CFPB’s rising renovation costs

Richard Pollock · July 21, 2014 5:42 pm

Fire consumes an arch-span building at Afghan National Army Brigade Camp Sayar in Afghanistan in 2012. The incident report on the fire said the building, which was 85 percent complete, burned in 30 minutes. (Photo: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers via SIGAR)

National Security

Another $1.5 billion that may go up in smoke in Afghanistan

Kelly Cohen · July 18, 2014 6:30 pm

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This state incorrectly gave $41 million in childcare benefits to ineligible families

Kelly Cohen · July 16, 2014 8:50 pm

CFPB headquarters in DC (Photo: Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Beltway Confidential

UPDATED: How could Bloomberg Businessweek reporter miss the Obama bundler in the CFPB renovation scandal?

Mark Tapscott · July 16, 2014 12:36 pm

Insurers suspect fraud in the THAN asbestos bankruptcy trust, call for audit

Heather Isringhausen Gvillo · July 8, 2014 2:53 pm

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Five problems a government inspection found with Obamacare subsidies

Susan Ferrechio · July 2, 2014 9:00 am

Doctors indicted for alleged health care fraud

Washington Examiner · June 27, 2014 12:53 am