Tag: Watchdog

The Federal Employees Compensation Act costs the federal government more than $3 billion every year, with the postal service soaking up 40 percent of all such expenses. (iStock)

Postal worker admits to $250,000 disability scam

Sarah Bedford · November 24, 2014 5:12 pm

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Getting fired is Mission: Impossible for bureaucrats in the Obama era

Luke Rosiak · November 24, 2014 10:00 am

n this Feb. 7, 2012, file photo, Ohio Gov. John Kasich delivers his State of the State address at Wells Academy/Steubenville High School in Steubenville, Ohio.(AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

IG report may be a problem for possible Kasich 2016 presidential run

Mark Tapscott · November 23, 2014 7:00 pm

Another Wall Street titan cashes in with top job at Treasury Dept.

Mark Tapscott · November 23, 2014 10:00 am

The hospice company forged Medicare claims that showed its nurses had visited their terminally ill patients when, in fact, they had not. (iStock)

Hospice owner faces prison for Medicare fraud

Sarah Bedford · November 22, 2014 6:00 pm

DOT officials haven't decide when fixes will be made for one-fifth of their 5,600 cybersecurity problems. (iStock Photo)

IG finds big DOT cybersecurity flaws

Mark Tapscott · November 22, 2014 10:00 am

"Couldn't Be Reached" is designed to "shine a light" on the times officials refuse to comment for stories. (Screenshot)

‘No comment’ won’t cut it for officials anymore, thanks to new blog

Mark Tapscott · November 21, 2014 10:00 am

An estimated 6,000 IRS employees have outside jobs or are involved in extracurricular businesses, but only half of them are doing so with permission from their superiors, according to a Department of the Treasury watchdog.Â (iStock)

IRS thinks its employees’ income info should be kept away from investigators

Mark Tapscott · November 21, 2014 10:00 am

An United States Postal Office employee puts a bundle of mail onto a machine at the Processing and Distribution Center on December 16, 2013 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Stephen Lam/Getty images)

U.S. mail moves much slower in San Francisco than anywhere else

Mark Tapscott · November 21, 2014 10:00 am

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FOIA advocates disagree on timing of reform measure moving through Senate

Mark Tapscott · November 20, 2014 11:03 pm

States can handle disasters better than FEMA, Cato study finds

Mark Tapscott · November 20, 2014 9:17 pm

Feds boxed up, forgot 12,000 FOIA requests

Mark Tapscott · November 20, 2014 3:50 pm