Tag: Watchdog

Inspector general faults Lockheed for ‘catch it later’ attitude toward F-35 problems

Michal Conger · October 3, 2013 4:00 am

Government agencies may have furloughed employees and blocked access to public sites, but they haven't stopped spending money. (AP Photo)

Shutdown or no shutdown, government agencies keep spending

Ethan Barton · October 3, 2013 4:00 am

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Suspended firms awarded federal contracts under disadvantaged business program

Ethan Barton · October 3, 2013 4:00 am

Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service employees' use of purchase cards amounted to rampant violation of federal procurement law, specialists say, and when an employee wrote to the General Services Administration to ask for a compliance review, the agency director and another top official forced her to send a âretraction,â according to documents reviewed by the Washington Examiner. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Part Three: FMCS executives forced whistleblower to retract fraud complaint

Luke Rosiak · October 3, 2013 4:00 am

Top officials of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service lavished taxpayer funds on themselves, made the phantom company of a recently retired employee one of their largest vendors and spent tens of thousands of dollars on storage spaces near their homes, where they kept old beds and toys. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Reckless spending goes straight to the top at FMCS

Luke Rosiak · October 2, 2013 4:00 am

Judicial Watch sued the U.S. Treasury, above, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, the Internal Revenue Service and IRS Acting Director Daniel Werfel on behalf of Larry Kawa, the owner of Kawa Orthodontics, over President Obama's delay of the Obamacare employer mandate. (Florian Hirzinger/Wikipedia)

Cause of Action sues for answers on financial crisis panel

Kelly Cohen, Michal Conger · October 2, 2013 4:00 am

Staff members from the Champaign Urbana Public Health District offices in Champaign, Ill., work with people trying to sign up for health care coverage through the Affordable Care Act on Tuesday. (AP/David Mercer)

Obamacare health insurance co-ops mostly not ready for opening day

Richard Pollock · October 2, 2013 4:00 am

A decision to barricade the National World War II MemorialÃÂ in Washington, D.C., to visitors during the federal government shutdown attracted national attention Wednesday when a group of veterans removed the barriers to visit the memorial, but it remained unclear who was responsible for the memorial's forcible closure. (Photo: Charlie Spiering/For the Washington Examiner)

Judicial Watch files FOIA over World War II Memorial’s closure

Michal Conger · October 2, 2013 4:00 am

The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is an obscure runaway government agency where the median annual salary is $120,000. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Bureaucrats at tiny federal agency FMCS buy legions of luxuries with purchase cards

Luke Rosiak · October 1, 2013 4:00 am

Lax US oversight of Afghani fuel purchases could waste another $1 billion

Michal Conger · October 1, 2013 4:00 am

EXography: State corporate tax rates are all over the map

EXography: State corporate tax rates are all over the map

Luke Rosiak · October 1, 2013 4:00 am

TheÃÂ Leadership in Energy and Environmental DesignÃÂ certification is a "mark of excellence" and it helps the public to compare "measurable green building design, construction, operations and maintenance solutions" with non-LEED properties, according to the U.S.ÃÂ Green Business Council. (AP File)

Energy and Environment

Green group hides environmental ratings of buildings it certifies

Richard Pollock · October 1, 2013 4:00 am