Waste, Fraud and Abuse
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King County Regional Homeless Authority admits failures, shifts blame for funding woes
While KCRHA leaders admit to these internal failures in their response report, they argue that they cannot fix the system alone.
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Ohio finds $1M in taxpayer funded childcare overpayments in Ohio
The centers no longer receiving state funding following are in Franklin, Cuyahoga and Hamilton counties – the state’s three largest counties and home to Columbus, Cleveland and Cincinnati, respectively.
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ICE arrests two Minnesota residents who are charged with $21 million in healthcare fraud
Authorities say that through two companies that one of the suspects owned, the defendants carried out a scheme to defraud a health care benefit program of approximately $21.1 million by submitting false claims to Medicaid.
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TSA spent $1.2 million on failed airline safety program
Even the air marshals knew it was a bad idea
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HHS squandered $106.7 billion on improper payments in 2019
The agency has identified only 13.2% of those funds as available for recovery.
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The hefty price tag for errant government spending: $2.3 trillion since 2004
Watchdogs like GAO and Open the Books warn that the government's record of spending mistakes is only getting worse.
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NIH spends more than $1.4 million on app that connects Latina women for walks together
The NIH has supported the app's developer through two rounds of funding.
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Multiple individuals charged in case involving about $16 million of fraudulently obtained PPP loans
In connection with the case federal agents have seized a Porsche and a Lamborghini allegedly bought with the fraudulently secured funding.
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HHS spends hundreds of thousands funding study of non-heterosexual women who drink and use Facebook
The study's goal is to use Facebook to examine the discrepancies between the drinking habits of heterosexual and non-heterosexual women
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NASA doles out half a million in taxpayer dollars for far-out alien detection program at Georgetown
The District of Columbia receives more taxpayer-funded grant dollars per-person than any other city in the country.
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Billions potentially went to fraudulent applicants in SBA's coronavirus relief program, report
At the height of the pandemic, the SBA 'lowered the guardrails' that prevent fraud, according to the inspector general report.
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The Money Pit: Watchdog chronicles $19 billion wasted in Afghan reconstruction effort
In a blistering new report, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has documented billions in aid dollars spent "carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose."
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FCC paid $27 million to fraudulent Hawaiian communications company
The FCC is now fining the company $50 million, and the owner has been sentenced to time in prison.