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Philadelphia Housing Authority spent millions improperly

By Aaron Mehta

The agency in charge of low-income housing for Philadelphia paid $30.5 million to outside law firms over a three-year period and couldn’t fu

Treasury’s financial reporting for TARP questioned

By Laurel Adams

GAO criticizes Treasury for lapses in its oversight of TARP accounts

Six Questions for Kendra Barkoff

Six Questions for...Kendra Barkoff
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SEC’s ex-chief accountant: Is agency a lapdog or watchdog?

A former Securities and Exchange Commission official urged the regulator “to get serious about enforcement.”

Financial industry getting off easy on IRS audits

By Nick Schwellenbach

With a week before tax day and the nation facing a massive deficit made worse by billion-dollar bailouts of financial companies, PaperTrail

Can an auditor still be independent after 100 years on a corporate payroll?

By Shirley Gao

The audit industry's regulator may require Big 4 firms to rotate periodically
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Phone fund for schools, libraries riddled with fraud

Government officials say they don't have the resources to fix the Universal Service Fund

Excerpts from this story referencing "New York":

"… ts, who worked for Connect2 Internet Networks Inc, preyed upon some of the New York City area's poorest schools, which qualified for the 90 percent subsidy un …"

"… ess quantities of E-Rate eligible goods and services to schools across the New York City area, with little or no control on the price they charged, and impose …"

"… collected nearly $9 million from the E-Rate fund to wire about three dozen New York-area schools to the Internet since 1998.Program Not Run By FCCAlthough the …"

"… n E. Himsworth, president of E-Rate Central, a consulting firm used by the New York State education system to prepare and process E-Rate applications. "Like m …"

Audit finds poor controls on millions of dollars in Afghan police program

Pentagon discovers overpayments to contractor, potential for waste

Excerpts from this story referencing "Audit":

"… leading defense Audit agency.A November 2009 Audit by the Defense Contract Audit Agency, made public Friday by a Senate subcommittee on contracti …"

State Integrity Investigation cited in Rhode Island flap

By Caitlin Ginley

Auditor resigns over governor's plan to eliminate auditing agency rated highly by State Integrity Investigation

Excerpts from this story referencing "Audit":

"… sed as part of the governor’s  budget.  Rhode Island’s Chief Auditor, H. Chris Der Vartanian,  announced his resignation Wednesday in th …"

"… Wednesday in the wake of Gov. Lincoln Chafee’s plan to cut the Bureau of Audits, citing the state’s ranking as a reason to keep the independent Auditin …"

"… that caused the controversy would transfer the functions of the Bureau of Audits to a different administrative division in the executive branch — one di …"

Medicare paid $3.6 billion for electronic health records but didn't verify quality goals were met

By Fred Schulte

Medicare paid providers billions to adopt electronic records without checking to see they're meeting quality goals