How important is nonprofit journalism?

Donate by May 7 and your gift to The Center for Public Integrity will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $15,000.

Click to donate

Aaron Mehta

Staff Writer  The Center for Public Integrity
amehta@publicintegrity.org
RSS feed for Aaron Mehta

Aaron Mehta joined the Center in the summer of 2008. He primarily covers Money and Politics and National Security, but has also done stories touching on finance and the environment. A Boston area native, Mehta graduated from Tufts University in 2007. His stories have been published in The New York Times, Washington Post, POLITICO, ABC News and other publications. He is currently a Paul Miller Reporting Fellow. 

Corporate cash and adroit lobbying have helped crush the Army’s effort to stop work on its premier tank.

GAO says programs still not following 'best practices.'

The special inspector general for Iraq tallies the loss of U.S. taxpayer funds at more than 11 percent of the billions spent

A government audit concludes that drones are costly and problematic for inspecting U.S. borders, but enthusiasm remains high.

The navy protects its submarine fleet from torpedoes and mines, but not from small, suctioning motors.

A veteran investigator fills one of ten vacant Inspector General jobs.

DOD personnel took $26 million in travel from industry, foreign governments.

U.S. starts arms sales, again, as the country's tumult persists

An ill-fated program set for termination at the end of 2013 gets new funding

The public supports reducing some military healthcare and personnel expenses, but not others.

Pages