Tag: Watchdog

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Federal agency honchos killed independent probe when IG turned sights on them

Luke Rosiak · October 9, 2014 9:00 am

A housing program in Chicago spent millions of taxpayer dollars on projects that should have been covered by income from the rent it was collecting, a watchdog report found. (iStock)

Chicago misused HUD housing grants

Sarah Bedford · October 8, 2014 6:00 pm

Sloan Gibson, deputy VA secretary, said the agency is moving as quickly as the law allows in getting rid of executives responsible for widespread falsification of patient records to hide long wait times. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Veterans Affairs executive defends pace of agency discipline in scandal

Mark Flatten · October 8, 2014 5:51 pm

Packages wait to be sorted in a Post Office in Atlanta. (AP/David Goldman)

Delayed upgrades cost Postal Service

Sarah Bedford · October 8, 2014 4:40 pm

Nonprofit health insurance pioneer closes its doors due to Obamacare costs

Richard Pollock · October 8, 2014 9:00 am

Four VA execs targeted for termination, but no one has actually been fired yet

Mark Flatten · October 7, 2014 8:08 pm

In this photo taken Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, Dr. David Mathis, center, talks with a cancer patient, inmate Luis Duran, in the hospice unit at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Obamacare adds inmates to Medicaid rolls

Sarah Bedford · October 7, 2014 6:00 pm

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Auditors catch DOT staffers gaining millions in illegal cash with government travel cards

Mark Tapscott · October 7, 2014 5:00 pm

A car in California gets an emissions test. (Getty file photo/Justin Sullivan)

Energy and Environment

EPA lacks info on its vehicle fleet

Sarah Bedford · October 7, 2014 9:00 am

"We determined that programs and sites routinely paid more than necessary when acquiring software licenses," the IG said in a Sept. 30 memorandum from Inspector General Gregory H. Friedman to DOE Secretary Ernst Moniz. (iStock)

Energy officials overpay for software

Richard Pollock · October 6, 2014 5:10 pm

Lax U.N. oversight of the international fund to pay Afghan National Police salaries has contributed to the diversion of up to $200 million by Afghanistan's Interior Ministry for questionable practices, according to a U.S. watchdog agency. (AP Photo)

Up to $200 million missing after lax UN oversight of Afghan police: Watchdog

Charles Hoskinson · October 6, 2014 4:39 pm

Top GOPers, including a Cheney, are behind a new pro-Obamaphone ad campaign

Luke Rosiak · October 6, 2014 9:00 am