Tag: Watchdog

Community Health paying $98M to settle US claims

Washington Examiner · August 4, 2014 11:46 pm

In this July 11, 2014 photo, Manuel Barbosa, 25, speaks during an interview with Associated Press in Santa Clara, Cuba. Fernando Murillo contacted Barbosa, a founder of the group "Revolution," while working on a clandestine operation by the Obama administration that dispatched Latin American youth to Cuba under the cover of health and civic programs to provoke unrest. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

National Security

US sent Latin youth undercover in anti-Cuba ploy

DESMOND BUTLERJACK GILLUMALBERTO ARCEANDREA RODRIGUEZ · August 4, 2014 10:23 pm

NY investigates mortgage firm’s insurance deals

Jeff Horwitz · August 4, 2014 10:00 pm

The Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Partnership received the contract to administer the Combined Federal Campaign in California for many years despite constant overruns, according to the Office of Personnel Management's inspector general. (iStock)

Firm running California federal charity drive misspent millions in donations, including buying a house

Luke Rosiak · August 4, 2014 10:00 am

Ex-banker sentenced in NY insider trading case

Washington Examiner · August 1, 2014 10:58 pm

Recalls this week: bicycles, aquarium heaters

The Associated Press · August 1, 2014 8:03 pm

2005 Hyundai Santa Fe.

Hyundai recalls more than 419K vehicles

Washington Examiner · August 1, 2014 3:56 pm

GAO opens new probe of CFPB ‘toxic workplace’ charges

Richard Pollock · August 1, 2014 5:00 am

FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2014, file photo, work continues on the new eastern span of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge in San Francisco. A Senate investigative report released Thursday, July 31, 2014, finds senior officials overseeing construction of the $6.5 billion eastern span of the bridge repeatedly and deliberately brushed off criticism about construction problems and sought to keep information secret as part of an "institutionalized, if not malicious, lack of transparency in the project." (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Report: Secrecy enveloped Bay Bridge construction

Juliet Williams · July 31, 2014 11:49 pm

Former Army official guilty in bribery scheme

Washington Examiner · July 31, 2014 8:15 pm

FILE - In this March 10, 2014 file photo, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) staff and journalists walk in front of the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant during a press tour in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan. A Japanese judicial panel has recommended that three former executives of the utility that operates the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant face criminal charges over their role in the disaster. A document released by the panel on Thursday, July 31, 2014 showed it voted in favor of indicting Tsunehisa Katsumata, chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Co. at the time of the crisis, along with two Vice Presidents Sakae Muto and Ichiro Takekuro. The cleanup effort continues, and its decommissioning is expected to last decades. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, Pool, File)

Panel wants TEPCO execs charged over nuke crisis

Mari Yamaguchi · July 31, 2014 12:58 pm

John Hanner, president of Aramark Correctional Services, defends before a prisons oversight committee his company's record in Ohio to the committee, saying food delays and substitutions have happened less than 1 percent of the time, Wednesday, July 30, 2014, in Columbus, Ohio. The state announced a $130,200 fine against Aramark, Wednesday for covered continued staffing shortages, unacceptable food substitutions and shortages and sanitation issues. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins)

Ohio: 2nd fine levied against prison food vendor

Andrew WelshHuggins · July 30, 2014 9:42 pm