Tag: Watchdog

National Security

Jason Chaffetz rips USAID over ‘slush fund’ to Afghan government

Michal Conger · April 3, 2014 4:00 am

Standing beside a 40-ton continuous mining machine, coal miner Ron Bryant Jr. uses a waist-level remote control to cut coal more than 450 feet underground at the American Coal Company's Galatia Mine in Galatia, Ill. Thursday, Feb. 21, 2002. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Energy and Environment

Underreporting of injuries in mines needs to be fixed, Labor Department IG says

Kelly Cohen · April 2, 2014 4:00 am

Braulio Castillo came under fire during a hearing on "service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses" on Capitol Hill.

Federal contractor who ‘broke the trust’ of veterans charged in murder of estranged wife

Mark Flatten · April 2, 2014 4:00 am

Stephen Kim, a former State Department expert on North Korea, arrives at federal court in Washington, Wednesday, April 2, 2014, where a federal judge sentenced him to 13 months in prison for passing classified information to a journalist. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

National Security

Ex-intel analyst gets prison for documents leak

Pete Yost · April 2, 2014 4:00 am

Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman held a press conference on a couple that alleged took $160,000 in welfare benefits while the husband claimed to be a Scottish aristocrat and broadcast executive. They also allegedly controlled bank accounts containing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Andrea and Colin Chisholm, of Deephaven, illegally obtained food stamps from 2005 to 2012, according to court documents. They were living in a luxury lakeside home and Colin Chisholm portrayed himself as a Scottish aristocrat who is a wealthy executive in the broadcasting industry, the document said. The couple owns a 83-foot yacht, a seaside home in Florida and had nearly $3 million in bank accounts, the document said. (AP Photo/ The Star Tribune, Richard Sennott)

Minnesota couple arrested in Florida for welfare fraud

Associated Press · April 2, 2014 4:00 am

File-This photo taken Jan. 23, 2014, shows General Motors CEO Mary Barra addressing the media during a roundtable meeting with journalists in Detroit. Barra will be asked by two Congressional subcommittees why it took GM a decade to recall cars with faulty ignition switches that the company says are now linked to 13 deaths. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

GM, safety agency face Congress over recalls

DEE-ANN DURBINTOM KRISHER · April 1, 2014 5:54 pm

This Sept, 14, 2012 file photo shows a Libyan military guard standing in front of one of the U.S. Consulate's burnt-out buildings.ÃÂ Blue Mountain Group, the British company providing security at the U.S. compound in Benghazi during the Sept. 11, 2012, attack there, was hired by the State Department despite having lost several other contracts in Libya, according to emails obtained by watchdog group Judicial Watch.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)

National Security

Benghazi security contractor had history of failure in Libya, emails show

Michal Conger · April 1, 2014 4:00 am

Attorney Kim Webb argues a motion for her client, Stacey Kalberman, as Judge Ural Glanville presides over Kalberman's lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court on March 31 in Atlanta. The former ethics commission secretary sued her former employer in 2011 and claims she was forced from office for investigating Gov. Nathan Deal's 2010 campaign. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Kent D. Johnson)

Trial begins in Georgia ethics commission suit

Associated Press · April 1, 2014 4:00 am

EXography: States passing laws to pull the shades on high-tech police snooping on mobile phones, devices

Mark Flatten · April 1, 2014 4:00 am

Crooked contractors, bribery and embezzlement are all subplots in a botched $153 million deal to build a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital near Pittsburgh, according to a report released Tuesday by the agency's inspector general.ÃÂ (Photo: Washington Examiner file)

Crooks had no trouble getting construction contracts from Department of Veterans Affairs, report shows

Mark Flatten · April 1, 2014 4:00 am

Ex-New Jersey official convicted of corruption

Washington Examiner · April 1, 2014 4:00 am

In this June 4, 2013, file photo, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Executives from manufacturing giant Caterpillar Inc. are heading to Capitol Hill to explain what Levin calls an aggressive strategy to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Carl Levin says Caterpillar avoided billions in taxes

Associated Press · April 1, 2014 4:00 am