Tag: Waste and Fraud

EXography: Globe-trotting honchos spend big on FMCS’ dime

Luke Rosiak · April 8, 2014 4:00 am

Retiring Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., a longtime deficit hawk, outlines his annual "Wastebook" on Dec. 17 during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Examiner Editorial: Congress should heed GAO and stop duplicative spending

Washington Examiner · April 8, 2014 4:00 am

Federal inspectors general are supposed to protect whistleblowers, but a House panel has accused Department of Commerce inspector general Todd Zinser of doing the opposite. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

House panel calls on Commerce inspector general to fire officials who forced ‘gag clause’ on whistleblowers

Michal Conger · April 8, 2014 4:00 am

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Time for a national commission to reduce the size of government

Cal Thomas · April 7, 2014 4:00 am

Woman, brother sentenced in bank fraud plot

Washington Examiner · April 4, 2014 12:19 am

Commuters make their way through Union Station in Washington, D.C., during the Thanksgiving travel season on Nov. 21, 2012. (Examiner File/Graeme Jennings)

Board created to oversee D.C.’s Union Station isn’t working, watchdog finds

Kelly Cohen · April 3, 2014 4:00 am

Rows of boxed publications are stored in an Environmental Protection Agency warehouse operated by a contractor in Blue Ash, Ohio. (EPA OIG photo)

EPA stores agency paper the expensive way, IG finds

Kelly Cohen · April 3, 2014 4:00 am

The IG recommended that the Defense Department put a single official in charge of the "revolving door" database. (Photo: ThinkStock)

National Security

Defense Department struggles to track its ‘revolving door,’ IG finds

Kelly Cohen · April 3, 2014 4:00 am

Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman held a press conference on a couple that alleged took $160,000 in welfare benefits while the husband claimed to be a Scottish aristocrat and broadcast executive. They also allegedly controlled bank accounts containing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Andrea and Colin Chisholm, of Deephaven, illegally obtained food stamps from 2005 to 2012, according to court documents. They were living in a luxury lakeside home and Colin Chisholm portrayed himself as a Scottish aristocrat who is a wealthy executive in the broadcasting industry, the document said. The couple owns a 83-foot yacht, a seaside home in Florida and had nearly $3 million in bank accounts, the document said. (AP Photo/ The Star Tribune, Richard Sennott)

Minnesota couple arrested in Florida for welfare fraud

Associated Press · April 2, 2014 4:00 am

A program used by the U.S. Postal Service called the Address Management System stores the information that allows for the delivery of mail to more than 127 million address across the country.

Address errors cost the USPS millions, IG finds

Kelly Cohen · March 31, 2014 4:00 am

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National Security

U.S. tax dollars may be paying salaries of Afghan National Police ‘ghost workers’

Michal Conger · March 31, 2014 4:00 am

If the hospital does not make the repayment, CMS will stop Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements until it is paid. (Photo: ThinkStock)

Louisiana hospital faces financial crisis

Associated Press · March 29, 2014 4:00 am