Tag: Waste and Fraud

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Million-dollar mortgage fraud scheme catches up to California man

Monica Perez · May 28, 2014 9:55 pm

Illinois hospice employees face fraud charges

Washington Examiner · May 28, 2014 8:01 am

Harbour and Areva workers check a container carrying uranium oxide to make fuel pellets called MOX, before being lifted onto the Pacific Egret cargo in western France in April 2013. (AP Photo/David Vincent)

Energy and Environment

Nuclear facility challenged by growing costs and completion delays

Kelly Cohen · May 27, 2014 5:13 pm

Dietitians, athletic trainers and massage therapists will no longer be able to prescribe and order Medicare drugs.Ã (Thinkstock Image)

New Medicare rule hopes to crack down on excess drug prescriptions

Kelly Cohen · May 22, 2014 4:00 am

Alcoa worker in Texas arrested in $1M fraud case

Washington Examiner · May 21, 2014 2:44 pm

Homes sit smoldering after Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 30, 2012, in the Breezy Point Neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Hurricane Sandy recovery money recipient didn’t need the funds, IG finds

Kelly Cohen · May 21, 2014 10:00 am

Charity drive employees, contractors fight reforms meant to reduce waste

Luke Rosiak · May 21, 2014 4:00 am

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Tennessee woman caught defrauding state Medicaid — again

Kelly Cohen · May 20, 2014 6:38 pm

New documents show the former director of the Monroe County, N.Y., Water Authority stood to receive thousands of dollars for steering work projects to favored companies.

New York county official caught in contracts scheme

Kelly Cohen · May 20, 2014 3:59 pm

The charity drive for the DC area alone is staffed by some 132 employees. These are the "loaned executives" who won't do any work for their agencies for at least six months because they're being paid to work on the charity campaign. (cfcnca.org/)

Feds’ version of ‘workplace giving’ means getting paid for charity — and often barely breaking even

Luke Rosiak · May 20, 2014 4:00 am

The podiatry clinic at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Ala., didn't have properly trained staff for about 18 months, resulting in delays for processing new cases and scheduling appointments, a new agency inspector general's report reveals. (Thinkstock)

Veterans Affairs staff in Alabama clinic not properly trained to schedule appointments, IG finds

Kelly Cohen · May 19, 2014 4:00 am

Global Impact's swank custom-designed headquarters with wall-to-wall views of the Potomac River.

Feds used donations intended for poor for massages, luxuries for themselves

Luke Rosiak · May 19, 2014 4:00 am