Tag: Waste and Fraud

It's a made-for-the-Tea Party solution: If the government becomes too corrupt to govern, perhaps the best plan is to get rid of it.ÃÂ (Thinkstock Image)

Beltway Confidential

Florida town may learn a revolutionary lesson: When government becomes too corrupt, it gets abolished

Ashe Schow · March 11, 2014 4:00 am

Ex-Va developer sentenced on federal fraud charges

Washington Examiner · March 11, 2014 3:01 am

Senate votes to divert political convention subsidies to pediatric research

Michal Conger · March 11, 2014 12:00 am

Examiner Editorial: Time to put some limits on class-action frequent filers

Washington Examiner · March 11, 2014 12:00 am

Massive fraud in Medicare's prescription drug programs may be going untracked, according to a government watchdog. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Federal officials may be missing massive Medicare Part D fraud

Kelly Cohen · March 11, 2014 12:00 am

Veterans Affairs officials resign after promoting employee who used tax dollars for ‘female companions,’ sexted on VA computers

Logan Porter · March 11, 2014 12:00 am

Idaho company denies bilking Medicaid

Associated Press · March 8, 2014 12:00 am

A former investment banker has been convicted in Connecticut of defrauding investment funds established as part of the government's response to the financial crisis. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Ex-trader convicted of defrauding bailout program

Washington Examiner · March 7, 2014 10:39 pm

Some of the watchdogs who are supposed to root out fraud in the Treasury Department themselves needed to be investigated, according to documents detailing layers of wrongdoing and cover-ups by agents of the Treasury's Office of the Inspector General. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Treasury investigators needed someone investigating them

Luke Rosiak · March 7, 2014 5:00 am

In a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray was pressed about the agency's collecting information of an estimated 991 million American credit card accounts. (AP File)

CFPB to pay $22.3 million to lease building owned by Obama bundler

Richard Pollock · March 7, 2014 12:00 am

National Security

Army lost $586 million in equipment, weapons in Afghanistan

Michal Conger · March 7, 2014 12:00 am

NASA struggles to manage its smartphones, report finds

Kelly Cohen · March 7, 2014 12:00 am