Tag: Watchdog

Supreme Court rejects ex-HealthSouth CEO Scrushy’s appeal on bribery, fraud convictions

Washington Examiner · January 27, 2014 5:00 am

State officials plan to update the way they consider environmental and health effects when determining the overall cost of energy production, a move that could help guide decisions ranging from the fate of aging power plants to using cleaner sources of energy. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Energy and Environment

Minnesota to update cost of external factors on energy

Washington Examiner · January 27, 2014 5:00 am

There have been five incidents in the last six months where patients' health records have made their way out of some of Texas' 10 public psychiatric facilities, according to a review of state records by a newspaper.

Texas psych hospitals deal with privacy breaches

Washington Examiner · January 27, 2014 5:00 am

New York insurance regulators have promised independent insurance agents they will take corrective action following a flood of complaints from consumers about Health Republic Insurance of New York, the largest of two dozen Obamacare health co-ops. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Consumer complaints swirl around Obamacare’s flagship health co-op in New York

Richard Pollock · January 27, 2014 5:00 am

Miami Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez wants the county's police department to turn over investigations of its police-involved shootings to the state. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Florida county calls for external police probes

Washington Examiner · January 27, 2014 5:00 am

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California students file suit to nix tenure law

Washington Examiner · January 27, 2014 5:00 am

In a Feb. 20, 2013 file photo, former New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin walks past Gallier Hall, the old New Orleans City Hall as he arrives at the Hale Boggs Federal Building and United States District Courthouse to appear in federal court for an arraignment on public corruption charges in New Orleans. Nagin, who led the city during its darkest days after Hurricane Katrina, will be thrust back into the spotlight Jan. 27 when he goes on trial in a corruption case that mushroomed at the end of his eight-year tenure. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File)

Ex-New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin goes on trial for bribery charges

Washington Examiner · January 27, 2014 5:00 am

The Carlucci brothers were accused of under-filling prescriptions and then billing Medicaid and other insurance companies for the fully filled prescription. (Photo: Thinkstock)

New Jersey pharmacist admits role in health care fraud scheme

Associated Press · January 25, 2014 5:00 am

Audit: New Mexico provider overbilled government

Barry Massey · January 24, 2014 9:43 pm

DC police chief addresses officer misconduct

Eric Tucker · January 24, 2014 9:21 pm

Calif. collects $300,000 in campaign ethics case

Juliet Williams · January 24, 2014 8:01 pm

Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford commands the U.S. forces in Afghanistan and the International Security Assistance Force. The Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction found that a reconstruction program in Afghanistan has spent less than its annual budget for six years straight, but that hasn't stopped the Department of Defense from requesting hundreds of millions more each year. (AP Photo/Chip Somodevilla, Pool)

National Security

Watchdog demands answers on why DOD asked for money it didn’t need in Afghanistan

Michal Conger · January 24, 2014 5:00 am