Public housing, private frustration

By Brian Ross, Avni Patel, John Solomon and Laurel Adams

HUD-funded housing projects wasted money on belly dancers, sex offenders and dead residents....

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"… allegations that the then-Philadelphia Housing Authority’s executive director had spent lavishly on parties that included belly dancers, and had used mo …"

"… r a series of newspaper exposes, the Philadelphia agency’s executive director was forced out of his $300,000 a year job running the country’s four …"

"… a good job,” Henriquez said, asserting that the probe of the former director overshadowed the agency’s successful efforts to revitalize housing.. …"

USAID, Pentagon struggle to make water projects in Afghanistan sustainable

By Laurel Adams

As U.S. troops draw down forces in Afghanistan over the next 18 to 24 months, what will happen to the water projects the U.S. spent millions

The buying of the presidential debates

By Josh Israel

This year’s presidential debates will be brought to you by beer, technology outsourcing, and bottled water, among others. The Commission on

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"… eated by Howard Buffett, who is also member of the Commission’s board of directors. The son of billionaire investor William Buffett, he was a Republican ele …"

"… up’s VP for communications, told the Center that Daniel P. Felton, their director of government relations, is working on the debates pro bono in return for …"

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Watchdog interference: Inspectors General say agencies hinder investigations

By John Solomon and Amy Biegelsen

In an unusually public spat, the independent watchdogs inside a dozen federal agencies are alleging government officials have hindered sensi

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"… e OIG staff greater access.” In fact, the watchdog and the Census Bureau director even set up twice-weekly conference calls to discuss the bureau’s decenn …"

ACLU challenges constitutionality of no-fly list

By John Solomon

The American Civil Liberties Union today sued the U.S. government, alleging it violated the constitutional rights of 10 U.S. citizens or leg

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"… ey General Eric Holder, FBI director Robert Mueller and Timothy Healy, the director of the government’s Terrorist Screening Center that administers the list …"

U.S. lacks basic security for e-passport manufacturing

By John Solomon

Last month, a gunman opened fire on an insurance building in the ancient Thai city of Ayutthaya, piercing the glass windows of the People’s

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"… ential. The system could be rather stronger than it is,” said Ari Juels, director of RSA Laboratories and an expert in electronic identity verification. “ …"

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Billionaire Clinton pal finally gets waiver from U.S. no-fly list

By John Solomon

The United States has issued a written apology to a jet-setting billionaire businessman and philanthropist with close ties to former Preside

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"… referred a reporter seeking comment to recent testimony by the center’s director, Tim Healy.“Our Redress Unit researches the complaints, coordinates with …"

George H.W. Bush — Revisited

By John Solomon

He’s 86 now, his eyebrows silver and his legs weakened by Parkinson’s-like symptoms. But as George Herbert Walker Bush approaches his twilig

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"… e infrequent. A democratic election was held the next year.Cynthia Arnson, director of Latin American Programs at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for …"

"… y power title one could crave: congressman, Republican Party chairman, CIA director, envoy to China, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, vice president and …"

Rebuked appraisers reborn as real estate agents

By Joe Eaton

In 2007, a mortgage lender flagged the work of veteran Florida home appraiser Jerome Woolf for review, a process that often leads to an appr

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"… d independently.And that’s the way it should be, said Thomas O’Bryant, director of the Florida Division of Real Estate. “Everybody is afforded under law …"

"… e two homes he lost his license over, Gluck declined to comment.Bob Clark, director of California’s Office of Real Estate Appraisers, said the state has mor …"

"… indicates a possible lack of ethical standards,” Clark said.O’Bryant, director of the Florida Division of Real Estate, declined to speak about Wainer’s …"

"… ment companies are “the wild, wild West,” of the industry, said Clark, director of the California Office of Real Estate Appraisers. “I believe that some …"

Wealthy ‘farmers’ snag federal dollars

By Joe Eaton

Forget stimulus checks; wealthy farmers raked in more than $49 million in federal funds between 2003 and 2006 that they may have been inelig

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"… rify that the people who receive payments quality for them. Lisa Shames, director of Natural Resources and Environment at the GAO, said her office does not …"

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