Commerce Dept. export unit rebuilds staff

By Julie Vorman

Boosting U.S. exports is one way to help the economy and create jobs, but a Commerce Department unit that helps American companies expand ex

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"… y the Government Accountability Office (GAO) or various federal Offices of Inspector General (OIG):NATIONAL SECURITYGovernment watchdogs made nearly 2,500 recommendati …"

Coast Guard to revise self-assessment on oil spills

By Julie Vorman

The Coast Guard, which played a key role responding to the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, is developing a new way to measure how effecti

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"… y the Government Accountability Office (GAO) or various federal Offices of Inspector General (OIG):Finance* FHA should file civil fraud charges against American Sterli …"

One-fourth of Pentagon’s war zone pay to civilians was improper

By Julie Vorman

The Pentagon improperly spent $57.7 million on danger and hardship pay and other special allowances and pay differentials for nearly 9,000 c

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"… In Afghanistan and Iraq, according to the Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General.The $57.7 million accounts for more than one-fourth of the total $212.9 mi …"

"… y the Government Accountability Office (GAO) or various federal Offices of Inspector General (OIG):FINANCE* OIGs government-wide spent $26 million in first six months …"

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Some foreclosure rescue scams involve lawyers, mortgage errors

By Julie Vorman

Desperate U.S. homeowners facing foreclosure are being duped by con artists. The scammers employ a variety of schemes such as a “forensic mo

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"… y the Government Accountability Office (GAO) or various federal Offices of Inspector General (OIG):FINANCEIRS lacks controls to ensure its $203 million in stimulus mon …"

Pentagon’s contract examiners need to cooperate

By Julie Vorman

Two Pentagon agencies that share responsibility for overseeing how big contracts are carried out should stop their squabbling and work toget

August 6, 2010

By Julie Vorman

TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT: What lessons did the U.S. government learn from its unprecedented 2008-09 intervention in the financial markets?...
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DOD struggles with medical e-records system

By Laurel Adams

The Department of Defense (DOD) has struggled since 1988 to establish a comprehensive medical records database for the 9.6 million service m

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"… by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), various federal Offices of Inspector General (OIG), and other government entities:FINANCE* IRS is training employees fo …"

IG: No special favors for Illinois bank owned by Senate hopeful’s family

By Julie Vorman

Politics did not delay federal bank regulators’ closing of Broadway Bank in Chicago, an institution owned by the family of Alexi Giannoulias

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"… y the Government Accountability Office (GAO) or various federal Offices of Inspector General (OIG):FINANCEIRS “ineffective” in overseeing contractors awarded $78.5 …"

Pentagon contracting audit chief removed following critical Senate hearing

By Nick Schwellenbach

The head of the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), April G. Stephenson, is being removed, according to an e-mail she wrote today to DCAA

Fraud cases fell while Pentagon contracts surged

By Nick Schwellenbach

The number of defense contracting fraud and corruption cases sent by government investigators to prosecutors dropped precipitously under the

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"… reports.Despite the dispute over the data, a Defense Department Office of Inspector General report to Congress in March 2008 states that investigation of contracting …"

"… anges in marching orders. Auditors inside the Defense Department Office of Inspector General now review three times the dollars they did a decade ago. “In FY97, ther …"

"… eport on Iraq reconstruction efforts. The report was issued by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, which was created to monitor how funding from the …"

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