Tag: Watchdog

Leonard Glenn Francis is at the center of an investigation into an overbilling scheme.

New York TImes: Navy was warned of contractor at center of bribery inquiry

Washington Examiner · November 21, 2013 5:00 am

Consumers can't go to healthcare.gov to learn if their doctors participate in an Obamacare-approved health care plan because the web site doesn't include such information.ÃÂ (Thinkstock Image)

Healthcare.gov can’t tell consumers whether they can keep their doctors

Richard Pollock · November 20, 2013 5:00 am

Some of the best seats to concerts at suburban venues go to politicians and insiders. (Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune / March 28, 2013)

Chicago Tribune: Insiders get special access to event tickets

Washington Examiner · November 20, 2013 5:00 am

The mission of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command is to recover and identify human remains of American service men and women from past wars. (Department of Defense)

NBC News: Pentagon lab, slow to ID human remains, has time to shoot Bradley Cooper movie

Washington Examiner · November 20, 2013 5:00 am

Officials lay wreathes at the Memorial of the Colleville American military cemetery, during a ceremony in Colleville sur Mer, western France, Thursday June 6, 2013, on the 69th anniversary of D-Day. (AP File)

Little-known battle commission misspending millions, GAO says

Michal Conger · November 20, 2013 5:00 am

Center for Investigative Reporting: Detained border crossers may find themselves sent to ‘the freezers’

Center for Investigative Reporting: Detained border crossers may find themselves sent to ‘the freezers’

Washington Examiner · November 20, 2013 5:00 am

Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., right, shown here Nov. 14, said that providing adequate funding for the federal inspectors general could be a way to fix the national debt. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

More staff and bigger budgets for federal watchdogs will save billions, IGs tell Senate panel

Ethan Barton · November 20, 2013 5:00 am

A nonprofit watchdog has filed a Freedom of Information Act suit to force General Services Administration officials to release federal contract documents that are supposed to be publicly available.

Sunlight Foundation sues GSA for federal contract docs

Michal Conger · November 20, 2013 5:00 am

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Judge shuts operations of 3 Canadians suspected in yellow pages scam

Washington Examiner · November 20, 2013 5:00 am

In recent years, many states have passed laws allowing police to take DNA samples at arrest -- before a suspect is charged with a crime, much less found guilty -- and enter them into state-level databases along with the national DNA database run by the FBI. (Thinkstock)

New questions raised about mandatory DNA swabbing by police

Eric Boehm · November 20, 2013 5:00 am

Chicago Sun-Times: Public pension and salary ‘double-dippers’ targeted in new bill

Chicago Sun-Times: Public pension and salary ‘double-dippers’ targeted in new bill

Washington Examiner · November 19, 2013 5:00 am

After living as a fugitive in Ukraine for two years, Irina Shelikhova was sentenced Nov. 12 to 15 years in federal prison for leading a $77 million Medicare fraud scheme involving bribery, falsified records and money laundering over a five-year period. (Photo: Thinkstock)

$77m Medicare fraud earns scheme leader 15 years in prison

Ethan Barton · November 19, 2013 5:00 am