Tag: Waste and Fraud

Top officials of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service lavished taxpayer funds on themselves, made the phantom company of a recently retired employee one of their largest vendors and spent tens of thousands of dollars on storage spaces near their homes, where they kept old beds and toys. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Reckless spending goes straight to the top at FMCS

Luke Rosiak · October 2, 2013 4:00 am

The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is an obscure runaway government agency where the median annual salary is $120,000. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Bureaucrats at tiny federal agency FMCS buy legions of luxuries with purchase cards

Luke Rosiak · October 1, 2013 4:00 am

Lax US oversight of Afghani fuel purchases could waste another $1 billion

Michal Conger · October 1, 2013 4:00 am

Ex-EPA official pleads guilty to theft

Ex-EPA official pleads guilty to theft

Frederic J. Frommer · September 27, 2013 2:50 pm

Energy and Environment

Export-Import Bank loans millions to Spanish firm; Bill Richardson advises both

Michal Conger · September 26, 2013 12:00 am

Postal Service awards more than $37 million in contracts without competition

Kelly Cohen · September 26, 2013 12:00 am

Construction company head cheats taxpayers out of $9 million

Michal Conger · September 26, 2013 12:00 am

FTC: $1M settlement in debt collection scheme

FTC: $1M settlement in debt collection scheme

Jennifer Kerr · September 25, 2013 2:32 pm

In this July 30, 2013 photograph, a farm tractor is seen tilling a field in Tunica, Miss. Area residents are hopeful at the promise of the jobs and tax base the opening of a GreenTech Automotive's Tunica assembly facility could provide in the Delta, where only farming, casinos and scant manufacturing jobs exist. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Energy and Environment

Report: GreenTech Automotive suspected in ‘visas-for-sale’ scheme

Michal Conger · September 24, 2013 4:00 am

Two Kentucky Republicans who served on a special investigative state House committee accused majority Democrats of disbanding the panel last year without fully investigating sexual harassment allegations against former Rep. John Arnold.

California attorney gets seven years for Ponzi scheme using federal bank bailout funds

Ethan Barton · September 24, 2013 12:00 am

Department of Interior officials reported lax with government travel cards

Kelly Cohen · September 23, 2013 12:00 am

Elizabeth Warren: ‘behavioral economics’ birthed CFPB’s credit card data-mining

Richard Pollock · September 23, 2013 12:00 am