Tag: Watchdog

Audit: Illinois overdrew federal Medicaid dollars

Carla Johnson · August 18, 2014 10:44 pm

Cianci sauce made no money for charity in 4 years

Michelle Smith · August 18, 2014 10:27 pm

Department of Veterans Affairs efforts to downplay its admission that preventable deaths occurred due to delays in medical care were called a "stunning lack of clarity" by the Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald in a letter released Monday. (AP Photo/The Commercial Appeal, Jim Weber)

New Veterans Affairs secretary apologizes for ‘stunning lack of clarity’ over preventable deaths

Mark Flatten · August 18, 2014 10:14 pm

File - In this Sept. 9, 2010 file photo, a massive fire roars through a mostly residential neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. pleaded not guilty Monday, Aug. 18, 2014, to charges in a new indictment that accuses the utility of lying to federal investigators looking into a fatal pipeline explosion in a San Francisco Bay Area neighborhood. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

PG&E pleads not guilty to charges in deadly blast

Washington Examiner · August 18, 2014 10:00 pm

House ethics panel continues probe of WI lawmaker

Stephen Ohlemacher · August 18, 2014 7:50 pm

Nonprofit watchdog group Cause of Action is challenging the White House in a federal lawsuit against 12 federal agencies.ÃÂ (iStock image)

Cause of Action sues 12 departments that allowed White House to intervene in FOIA responses

Kelly Cohen · August 18, 2014 7:04 pm

Michael Keslosky knows he will die soon -- the victim, he says, of years of failure by Department of Veterans Affairs doctors to diagnose his fatal illness and get him the treatment that could have saved his life. (Photo by Chris Adval)

Delays, denials by Department of Veterans Affairs deliver ‘death sentence’ to cancer victim

Mark Flatten · August 18, 2014 10:00 am

Two of the helicopters on the flight line in Guatemala. (Washington Examiner/Richard Pollock)

Joint U.S.-Guatemalan anti-drug program jeopardized by Central American government’s late payments

Richard Pollock · August 18, 2014 9:00 am

This Aug. 6, 2014 photo shows Malcolm Bell, a retired lawyer, at his home in Weston, VT. The whistleblower who spurred a major state investigation of alleged crimes and cover-ups at Attica prison is still on the case four decades later. Ex-prosecutor Bell, now 82 and retired to the Green Mountains of Vermont, recently filed court papers in support of opening long-sealed investigation volumes. (AP Photo/Michael Virtanen)

Attica whistleblower still pushing full disclosure

Michael Virtanen · August 17, 2014 5:31 pm

A grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday for abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating public corruption â making the possible 2016 presidential hopeful his state's first indicted governor in nearly a century. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Texas’ Rick Perry indicted for coercion for veto threat

Will Weissert · August 15, 2014 11:12 pm

This undated combo image made from images provided by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission shows an ESL and Interlogix smoke detector 400 series, left, and an ESL and Interlogix smoke detector 500 series. Radio frequency interference can cause the smoke detectors to fail to alert consumers of a fire. (AP Photo/U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)

Recalls this week: smoke alarms, space heaters

The Associated Press · August 15, 2014 7:06 pm

Scott won’t reinstate acquitted Miami Lakes mayor

Washington Examiner · August 15, 2014 4:55 pm