Waste and Fraud

Crime

Woman, brother sentenced in bank fraud plot

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

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

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)

Healthcare

Louisiana hospital faces financial crisis

Associated Press -

March 29, 2014 4:00 am

News

Feds Spend Another $20M on Healthcare.gov

Jeryl Bier -

March 28, 2014 8:01 am

Postal employees have spent thousands of taxpayer dollars on gambling, bills and other personal expenses, according to a series of reports by the U.S. Postal Service inspector general. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Postal service employees use travel cards to gamble, pay bills and go bowling

Michal Conger -

March 27, 2014 4:00 am

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Tag: Waste and Fraud

Woman, brother sentenced in bank fraud plot

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

EPA stores agency paper the expensive way, IG finds

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

Minnesota couple arrested in Florida for welfare fraud

Address errors cost the USPS millions, IG finds

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

Louisiana hospital faces financial crisis

Feds Spend Another $20M on Healthcare.gov

Postal service employees use travel cards to gamble, pay bills and go bowling

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