Tag: Waste and Fraud

New Jersey doctor ordered life-threatening treatments in $19m fraud

Ethan Barton · November 21, 2013 5:00 am

Leonard Glenn Francis is at the center of an investigation into an overbilling scheme.

New York TImes: Navy was warned of contractor at center of bribery inquiry

Washington Examiner · November 21, 2013 5:00 am

The mission of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command is to recover and identify human remains of American service men and women from past wars. (Department of Defense)

NBC News: Pentagon lab, slow to ID human remains, has time to shoot Bradley Cooper movie

Washington Examiner · November 20, 2013 5:00 am

Officials lay wreathes at the Memorial of the Colleville American military cemetery, during a ceremony in Colleville sur Mer, western France, Thursday June 6, 2013, on the 69th anniversary of D-Day. (AP File)

Little-known battle commission misspending millions, GAO says

Michal Conger · November 20, 2013 5:00 am

A 44-year-old New Orleans man has been sentenced in Baton Rouge to 15 months in federal prison for his role in frauds alleged to have cost Medicare more than $2.5 million.

Beltway Confidential

Federal bureaucrats get it right on four out of five payments and we’re supposed to cheer?

Mark Tapscott · November 20, 2013 5:00 am

WMBB Panama City, Fla.: Former labor union president sentenced to prison for wire fraud

Washington Examiner · November 20, 2013 5:00 am

Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., right, shown here Nov. 14, said that providing adequate funding for the federal inspectors general could be a way to fix the national debt. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

More staff and bigger budgets for federal watchdogs will save billions, IGs tell Senate panel

Ethan Barton · November 20, 2013 5:00 am

After living as a fugitive in Ukraine for two years, Irina Shelikhova was sentenced Nov. 12 to 15 years in federal prison for leading a $77 million Medicare fraud scheme involving bribery, falsified records and money laundering over a five-year period. (Photo: Thinkstock)

$77m Medicare fraud earns scheme leader 15 years in prison

Ethan Barton · November 19, 2013 5:00 am

Matthew Daniel Sweet, of Timbo, Ark., is alleged to have stolen nearly $75,000 from Troubled Asset Relief Program funds recipient One Bank & Trust. (Thinkstock)

Ex-bank official awaits punishment on fraud, money laundering counts

Michal Conger · November 19, 2013 5:00 am

NASA's Office of the Inspector General noted a concept at the agency known as the "Hubble philosophy" -- that as long as a project works, NASA will overlook time and budget overages. (AP Photo/NASA)

Complex math stumps NASA, wastes millions on incorrect contractor payments

Michal Conger · November 19, 2013 5:00 am

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Ohio to repay Health and Human Services more than $3 million

Kelly Cohen · November 19, 2013 5:00 am

Reuters: The Pentagon’s bad bookkeeping

Washington Examiner · November 18, 2013 5:00 am