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August 6, 2014 12:12 pm

The Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Partnership received the contract to administer the Combined Federal Campaign in California for many years despite constant overruns, according to the Office of Personnel Management's inspector general. (iStock)

Firm running California federal charity drive misspent millions in donations, including buying a house

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August 4, 2014 10:00 am

The National Science Foundation gave two grants for collaborative research to professors at Yale and New York universities to study

Technology

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

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

Immigration

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

Kelly Cohen -

July 16, 2014 8:50 pm

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Tag: Waste and Fraud

Close Enough For …

Firm running California federal charity drive misspent millions in donations, including buying a house

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

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

2 Fla. brothers sentenced for food stamp fraud

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

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

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

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

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

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