Tag: Watchdog

âGiven VAâs history of misleading statements regarding a range of issues, I hope the IG will treat the department with much more scrutiny in the future,â Miller said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Veterans Affairs IG missed wait-time scandal’s warning signs for a decade

Mark Flatten · October 6, 2014 9:00 am

An estimated 49 million Americans depend upon $2.7 trillion in employee benefit pension plan assets that either aren't fully audited or get a meaningless annual certification of their value, according to the Department of Labor inspector general. (iStock)

Trillions in pension plan assets can’t be verified, Labor Department IG reports

Mark Tapscott · October 5, 2014 6:00 pm

The Postal Service has issued 12,000 Voyager credit cards used by contractors to buy 1.6 billions gallons of diesel fuel to carry the mail since 2005, the USPS inspector general said in a report made public Friday. (iStock)

Post office’s contractor gas credit card program is ‘not manageable,’ IG says

Mark Tapscott · October 5, 2014 2:43 pm

A Denver-based nonprofit advocacy group for the homeless that has received more than $90 million in federal grants refuses to heed official rules on how tax dollars can be spent, according to a government watchdog. (iStock Photo)

Homeless advocates refuse to follow federal-grant spending regulations

Mark Tapscott · October 4, 2014 9:00 am

IRS supervisors are using quotas for how many investigations and seizures agents launch against taxpayers as criteria in their performance evaluations, despite the fact the practice that has been illegal since 1998, according to a government watchdog. (AP/J. David Ake)

Some IRS bosses using audit quotas to rate agents despite 1998 law, IG warns

Sarah Bedford · October 3, 2014 6:00 pm

In the three years before the settlement in July 2011, Center for Biological Diversity's Endangered Species Director Noah Greenwald said, CBD filed 20 ESA petitions to protect 466 species and 26 lawsuits to protect species. (iStock Photo)

Energy and Environment

UPDATED: Energy group’s ESA report ‘incredibly inaccurate,’ environmentalists counter

Mark Tapscott · October 3, 2014 4:32 pm

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Michigan providers defrauded Medicare for $29 million

Sarah Bedford · October 3, 2014 12:44 pm

Susan M. Taylor, the subject of a scathing VA inspector general's report released Friday, landed the new job as director of procurement planning at the Department of Energy and was slated to start Sunday, Oct. 5.

UPDATED: Disgraced VA official landed, then lost new job at Energy Department

Mark Flatten · October 2, 2014 8:20 pm

A review of the Internal Revenue Service's compliance with the Freedom of Information Act found the agency intentionally withheld or failed to "adequately search" for requested information in hundreds of cases. (iStock Photo)

IRS withheld information from hundreds of FOIAs

Sarah Bedford · October 2, 2014 2:21 pm

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D.C. workers collect unemployment payments while on city payroll, IG finds

Mark Flatten · October 2, 2014 10:00 am

TracFone Wireless, the largest Obamaphone vendor, receives more than $9 per line from the federal government for each phone it distributes to the poor, but sells similar service to the general public for less than $7. (iStock Photo)

Companies get $9/mo per Obamaphone from feds while offering to public for $7

Luke Rosiak · October 2, 2014 9:00 am

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Feds paid for fighting fake fires

Sarah Bedford · October 2, 2014 9:00 am