Tag: Watchdog

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's circus handler Joey Frisco speaks to an Asian elephant during an appearance in Boston's North End. (AP/Elise Amendola)

Animal rights groups that paid circus $15.7 million file suit against insurers who cancelled them in 2010

Richard Pollock · July 7, 2014 10:00 am

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Judicial Watch asks federal judge to lift ‘temporary’ stay on lawsuit seeking Operation Fast and Furious documents

Mark Tapscott · July 7, 2014 10:00 am

In this Wednesday, July 2, 2014 photo, warning flags hang on the parking garage of the State Board of Equalization building in Sacramento, Calif. The building, which houses the headquarters of the state agency that administers taxes and fees, has been plagued with problems including panes of glass popping out and crashing to the sidewalk, elevators stalling and corroding pipes damaging the buildings's water system, since it was opened in 1993.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

State office building racks up millions in repairs

Fenit Nirappil · July 7, 2014 2:44 am

Fla man charged in Medicare scam among most wanted

Washington Examiner · July 6, 2014 9:43 pm

Subaru recalls 660K vehicles for brake line rust

Washington Examiner · July 3, 2014 5:49 pm

George Tattos attends his arraignment at Manhattan Supreme Court, Wednesday, July 2, 2014, in New York. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. and city Department of Investigation Commissioner Mark Peters announced earlier that morning the indictment of several individuals and businesses on charges including grand larceny, fraud, forgery, and evidence tampering through a building site safety inspection scam. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

New York construction firms accused of safety scam

Jennifer Peltz · July 2, 2014 11:18 pm

FILE - In this June 23, 2011, file photo, Chief Judge Richard F. Cebull makes a speech during a naturalization ceremony at the federal courthouse in Billings, Mont. A group of American Indians wants a court to preserve and eventually release an investigative file containing inappropriate emails sent by Cebull including a racist message involving President Barack Obama. A judicial review panel found he sent hundreds of emails from his federal account that showed disdain for blacks, Indians, Hispanics, women, certain religions and others. He was publicly reprimanded and retired. (AP Photo/Billings Gazette, James Woodcock, File)

Groups want to see Montana judge’s racist emails

Matthew Brown · July 2, 2014 11:00 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2013, file photo, Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam leaves Manhattan federal court following his sentencing, with his attorney Terence Lynam, left, in New York. A former driver and personal assistant to imprisoned hedge-fund founder Rajaratnam says he was asked to help funnel money from his boss to other inmates at a federal prison in Massachusetts. Rajaratnam is serving an 11-year sentence for insider trading at minimum-security Devens Federal Medical Center in Ayer, Mass. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, File)

Lawsuit: Inmate tried to buy influence in prison

Washington Examiner · July 2, 2014 3:28 pm

The offices of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau at 1700 G Street NW, Washington, D.C., July 11th, 2013. (Examiner/Graeme Jennings)

CFPB’s renovation costs skyrocket to $216 million; IG sees ‘no sound basis’ for it

Richard Pollock · July 2, 2014 10:00 am

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Five problems a government inspection found with Obamacare subsidies

Susan Ferrechio · July 2, 2014 9:00 am

FILE - In this Friday, June 20, 2014 file photo, Sen. Thomas Libous, R-Binghamton, debates medical marijuana legislation in the Senate Chamber at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. In an indictment unsealed Tuesday, July 1, 2014, the top-ranking New York state senator has pleaded not guilty to a charge that he lied to the FBI about arranging a law firm job for his son. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

NY state senator indicted; accused of lying to FBI

DAVID KLEPPERJIM FITZGERALD · July 1, 2014 11:49 pm

Graco gives in, agrees to recall infant car seats

Tom Krisher · July 1, 2014 11:02 pm