Tag: Watchdog

Embattled former Internal Revenue Service senior executive Lois Lerner cautioned colleagues against including comments in official emails that might be seen by Congress. (AP/Lauren Victoria Burke)

What Lois Lerner told her IRS colleagues not to say in emails

Mark Tapscott · July 9, 2014 9:18 pm

Improper payments by federal government top $100B

Stephen Ohlemacher · July 9, 2014 8:33 pm

10-year sentence for ex-New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin

Kevin McGill · July 9, 2014 3:15 pm

James Tuchschmidt, a top official at the Veterans Health Administration, the VA's health care arm, makes an opening statement while testifying before a House Veterans' Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Tuchschmidt said he was sorry that VA employees have suffered retaliation after making whistleblower complaints. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Veterans Affairs apologizes to whistleblowers facing retaliation

Matthew Daly · July 9, 2014 12:50 pm

Fla sheriff pays $1.15M in wrongful death case

Washington Examiner · July 9, 2014 11:53 am

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The U.S. has spent $626 million on embassy expansion it may not need in this country

Kelly Cohen · July 9, 2014 10:00 am

This Tuesday, June 8, 2014 photo provided by the New York City Special Narcotics Prosecutor's Office shows Anthony D'Alessandro. The former pharmacy chief for Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital in Manhattan allegedly stole nearly 200,000 oxycodone pills from the medical center over more than five years and has been charged under a state drug-kingpin law more often aimed at accused street dealers, narcotics prosecutors said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Special Narcotics Prosecutor's Office)

Hospital pharmacist charged in theft of 200K pills

Jennifer Peltz · July 8, 2014 9:31 pm

The Veterans Affairs Health Care Center in Harlingen, Texas. The Harlingen medical center ranked high on the list of the facilities with the longest average waits as of May 15 for new patients seeking primary care, specialist care and mental health care. (AP Photo/Valley Morning Star, David Pike)

Millions of tax dollars in ‘sordid’ bonuses paid to top Veterans Affairs administrators despite phony wait lists, patient deaths

Mark Flatten · July 8, 2014 9:00 am

Arizona utility to pay $3.25M for 2011 blackout

Washington Examiner · July 8, 2014 2:42 am

FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2014 file photo, Illinois state Treasurer Dan Rutherford is seen in the House chambers at the state Capitol in Springfield Ill. The Associated Press has learned that Rutherford fired three top administrators after an investigation by the treasurer's inspector general. Letters from Rutherford's office obtained by the AP indicate Patrick Carlson, George Daglas and Ashvin Lad were dismissed July 2, 2014. Each was dismissed for allegedly violating timekeeping policies and falsifying records. The letter to Carlson says he also violated rules against "workplace harassment." (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Illinois treasurer fires 3 staffers

John O'connor · July 8, 2014 1:21 am

FILE - In this February 7, 2012, file photo, shows equipment in the oil fields of the Uintah Basin, southeast of Vernal, Utah. A federal report finds the agency tasked with approving mines and drills on public lands has hampered development by taking too long to review those proposals. The recent report from the Department of the Interior's inspector general says half of such applications flow into the Bureau of Land Management's Vernal office. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Trent Nelson, File)

Report: Backlog in drill requests hurts industry

Washington Examiner · July 7, 2014 10:59 pm

FILE - This Tuesday, April 1, 2014 file photo shows a key in the ignition switch of a 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt in Alexandria, Va. Responding to complaints about "cheap-feeling" switches that required too much effort to turn, General Motors set about making new ones that would work more smoothly and give drivers the impression that they were better designed, a GM switch engineer testified in a lawsuit deposition in the spring of 2013. The switches, though, were too loose, touching off events that led to at least 13 deaths, more than 50 crashes and a raft of legal trouble for the Detroit automaker. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)

How GM’s ignition switch redesign went wrong

Tom Krisher · July 7, 2014 7:39 pm