Tag: Watchdog

The high-level procurement official at the Department of Veterans Affairs slammed for leaking inside information to a private contractor retired from the agency Tuesday, the Washington Examiner has learned. (Getty images File)

Embattled Veterans Affairs procurement official abruptly resigns

Mark Flatten · October 15, 2014 12:55 pm

FILE - In this March 11, 2011 file photo, Scot Beckenbaugh, deputy director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service listens during a news conference in Washington.Â Beckenbaugh draws a $174,000 salary for his job on K Street in Washington, yet he insists he is an Iowa resident for state tax purposes.Â (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

FMCS honcho lives in D.C. but claims Iowa tax residency

Luke Rosiak · October 15, 2014 9:00 am

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Feds often ignore market research

Sarah Bedford · October 14, 2014 1:37 pm

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HHS IG says New York should return $23 million in misspent Medicaid funds

Sarah Bedford · October 13, 2014 5:41 pm

The IRS building.

More than $16 billion in uncollected taxes blamed on poor IRS case selection

Mark Flatten · October 13, 2014 5:30 pm

If you have never heard of FMCS, that is because it does very little with its $50 million annual budget. Its ostensible purpose is to provide voluntary arbitration services in labor disputes, but clearly it doesn't even do much of that. (iStock)

An outrageous agency that Congress should abolish now

Washington Examiner · October 13, 2014 9:00 am

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2013 file photo, Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, the state's health insurance exchange, talks at a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. Long before it opened its doors to the public last fall, California's health insurance exchange awarded a small contract to a business consultant, Leesa Tori, for her advice on designing a program to sell insurance to small companies The industry veteran was a friend and former co-worker of Peter Lee, the exchange's top executive. The seemingly minor deal would mark the beginning of a lucrative and far-reaching partnership between the new state agency and the boutique consulting company Tori formed last year, just as national health care reform took root across the U.S. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

AP Exclusive: California gives no-bid health pacts

Michael Blood · October 13, 2014 1:09 am

A Milwaukee real estate mogul hid more than $7 million in assets by using a series of shell companies to evade creditors, a federal grand jury said in a 16-count indictment. (iStock Photo)

Ex-foreclosure king hid $7 million from creditors, faces 16-count indictment

Sarah Bedford · October 12, 2014 9:00 am

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Extendicare reaches record settlement for providing ‘worthless’ nursing services

Luke Rosiak · October 11, 2014 6:00 pm

Most of the $41 billion in annual federal highway spending is not adequately tracked by the Federal Highway Administration, a new report from the Government Accountability Office found. (iStock Photo)

Lax reporting makes $41 billion in federal highway spending tough to track

Mark Flatten · October 11, 2014 9:00 am

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Pentagon lacks proper documentation of fair prices on $70 billion in contracts

Mark Tapscott · October 10, 2014 6:00 pm

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Doctors, hospitals rethinking electronic medical records mandated by 2009 law

Richard Pollock · October 10, 2014 9:00 am