Tag: Watchdog

Illegal profits: A look at insider trading

Ken Sweet · June 10, 2014 9:26 pm

Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki and Veterans Affairs Undersecretary for Health Robert Petzel are sworn in before testifying to the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee about wait times veterans face to get medical care May 15, 2014 in Washington. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Faces of scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs

Mark Flatten · June 10, 2014 3:00 pm

State Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, gives a thumbs up to Sen. Bill Berryhill, R-Twain Harte, unseen, after he voted for Hill's campaign reform measure at the Capitol in Sacramento,Calif., Monday, June 9, 2014. By a 35-1 vote the Senate approved Hill's SB831, that creates new disclosure laws for travel-related gifts and bans elected official from requesting payments be made on their behalf to nonprofit organizations. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Senate approves tighter gift bans, ethics rules

Judy Lin · June 10, 2014 1:59 am

Visitors leave the Richard L. Roudebush Veterans Administration Medical Center in Indianapolis on Monday. An audit of VA hospitals and clinics nationwide has found that nearly 275 Indiana patients are still waiting for initial appointments at facilities in Indianapolis and northern Indiana 90 days or more after requesting them. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Prosecutions, firings needed to root out corruption at Department of Veterans Affairs, IG testifies

Mark Flatten · June 10, 2014 1:46 am

In this May 28, 2014 photo, Illinois state Rep. Derrick Smith enters federal court for the beginning of jury selection in his corruption trial in Chicago. During closing arguments Monday, June 9, 2014, prosecutors said that Smith placed his own welfare above his constituents by taking a $7,000 bribe from a day care operator seeking a state grant. An attorney for Smith, however, told jurors a campaign worker-turned-informant hoodwinked the Chicago Democrat to justify cooperation payments from his FBI handlers. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Closing arguments made at Illinois lawmaker trial

Michael Tarm · June 10, 2014 12:42 am

Ex-Interior Department official accused of harassment, favoritism

Kelly Cohen · June 9, 2014 10:07 pm

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Watchdog group hit with subpoena from Department of Veterans Affairs inspector general seeking whistleblower identities

Mark Flatten · June 9, 2014 6:16 pm

This undated photo provided by United States Enrichment Corp shows Ronnie Kineman, a member of USEC's cylinder handling crew, moving a Department of Energy-owned depleted uranium "tails" cylinder into a staging area at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant. (AP Photo/United States Enrichment Corporation)

Energy and Environment

Energy Department acted illegally in transferring uranium to private firm USEC, GAO report says

Mark Tapscott · June 9, 2014 5:48 pm

A man visits the Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic in Fort Collins, Colo., Monday, May 5, 2014. Employees at the clinic were instructed to falsify records to make it appear that patients were getting appointments close to the day requested, government investigators said. (AP Photo/The Coloradoan, Erin Hull)

Audit: More than 57,000 awaiting initial Veterans Affairs visits

Matthew Daly · June 9, 2014 4:13 pm

Nguyen Duc Kien, center, former vice chairman of the founding council of the Asia Commercial Bank (ACB), appears at the Hanoi People's Court in Hanoi, Vietnam, Monday, June 9, 2014. The court sentenced Kien, one of the country's richest men, to 30 years in prison on Monday after finding him guilty of financial crimes involving millions of dollars. Kien, a flamboyant businessman who also headed the Hanoi ACB football club, was arrested in 2012. The move was seen as part of the fallout of a power struggle among factions in the ruling Communist Party and allied business tycoons. (AP Photo/VNA Photo, Doan Tan) VIETNAM OUT

Vietnam tycoon sentenced to 30 years for fraud

Washington Examiner · June 9, 2014 2:41 pm

State data show fewer people are shopping for doctors in Virginia to illegitimately obtain prescription drugs. (Thinkstock Image)

Doctor shopping for drugs declines in Virginia

Associated Press · June 9, 2014 2:11 pm

Report: Federal oversight of bus system lags

Washington Examiner · June 9, 2014 11:56 am