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Law and Government
Broken investor-visa program gets ‘lipstick on a pig’ treatment
America’s investor-visa program is ripe for fraud, a new investigation finds — but an immigration expert says the government’s proposed fixes…
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Law and Government
Justice Department ‘undermines’ gov’t watchdogs by blocking access to documents
Department of Justice officials gave official approval Thursday to the FBI’s practice of blocking access to data and documents in…
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Law and Government
10 things the feds could buy with the $60 billion they squandered on Medicare fraud, abuse
When federal investigators visited the address listed for a Medicare provider last December, they instead found a fast food restaurant.…
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Education
Obama administration to forgive up to $3.6 billion in student loans
The Department of Education announced Monday that it is implementing a plan to forgive as much as $3.6 billion in student loans…
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Law and Government
Thousands of inmates, dead people, and unlicensed doctors on Medicaid gravy train
Four states approved $580 million of potentially phony Medicaid payments in 2011, and the officials responsible don’t seem to be in…
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Law and Government
Top NY State Republican and son arrested on corruption charges
The cesspool that is New York politics continued true to form this morning, as Dean Skelos (R), leader of the…
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Law and Government
Dem lawmaker charged with wire fraud posts job opening for wire fraud investigator
William Scarborough, a Democratic New York State Assemblyman recently charged with seven counts of wire fraud, took to social media…
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Law and Government
Report: The worst examples of welfare fraud and how to fix them
The Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) released a report Thursday detailing the worst examples of welfare fraud and how to…
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Politics
After spitting on Congress’s shoes, FCC asks for biggest budget increase in history
Less than a week after the Federal Communications Commission stepped on legislators’ toes by voting to assert regulatory control over…
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Sports and Culture
Jeremiah Wright’s daughter headed to prison after violating bail arrangement via alleged theft
It is tempting to declare that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, but we’ll let the facts speak…
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Economy
U.S. government paid almost $300,000 in prescription drug benefits to dead people
A study of Medicare Part D disbursements for 2012 HIV patients reveals that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services…
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Law and Government
Voting machines automatically switching Republican votes to Democrat blamed on ‘calibration error’
Voting machines that switch Republican votes to Democrats are being reported in Maryland. “When I first selected my candidate on…
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Unyielding
President Obama reveals restaurant rejected his credit card (Video)
President Obama disclosed during an executive order signing ceremony Friday that his credit card was recently rejected when he attempted…
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Law and Government
Federal workers abuse gov’t credit cards at taxpayers’ expense: Make personal purchases
Federal employees are running amok with government credit cards, making thousands of personal purchases at the public’s expense. The ongoing…
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Economy
Latest ‘phony’ scandal: Census Bureau accused of faking jobless numbers to help Obama win re-election
In November 2013, the New York Post provided evidence that the monthly unemployment numbers may have been rigged to help…
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Law and Government
NY Dems pushing hard to grant citizenship, voting rights to illegal immigrants
Democrats in New York are pushing for – and openly hoping for – a chance to grant citizenship and voting…
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Law and Government
GAO: Growth in food stamp recipients overwhelms anti-fraud efforts
State-level efforts to combat fraud in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) have met with mixed success, according to a report released…
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Education
Mark Zuckerberg, rich Obama pals request billions for wi-fi in schools, libraries
A group of tech leaders are urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to spend billions expanding access to wireless Internet…
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Law and Government
14-year-old sues male peer who posted her nude selfie online
The nude selfie strikes again. This time the subject was a female of the species, barely into adolescence. A 13-year-old…
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Law and Government
While vets die waiting for treatment, Pentagon moves ahead with Manning sex change
In the wake of an ever-burgeoning “wait for them to die” scandal within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the…
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Economy
Report: IRS allowing billions in improper tax credits
A new government report says the IRS is making little progress in reducing improper payments of Earned Income Tax Credits — allowing more…
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Politics
Obama: Voter fraud doesn’t exist, supporters of voter ID ‘frauds’
While speaking at Al Sharpton‘s National Action Network in New York, Barack Obama dismissed claims that voter fraud exists, Breitbart.com…
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Pa. AG shuts down corruption sting when too many fellow Dems caught redhanded
It started as a plea arrangement between a lobbyist arrested for fraud and the Republican attorney general of the state…
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Law and Government
Expanding Medicaid not the answer: Lessons from Arkansas and Virginia
Citing more than $200 million in “waste, fraud and abuse” in Virginia’s Medicaid program, Republican leaders say expanding the program now would…
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Education
Inspector General report reveals major abuses by Chicago public school officials
An Office of the Inspector General report found that certain officials in the Chicago Public School (CPS) system have been…
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Law and Government
WH website, blog still promising you can keep your health insurance
Hey, what do you expect from an administration that is still familiarizing itself with DOS command lines? Weasel Zippers notes that…
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Law and Government
New study finds food stamps most rapidly expanding entitlement
For anyone other than a socialist, getting more Americans on the government dole would be a sign of abject failure…
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Law and Government
Government waste through fraud: Federal employees file phony disability claims
How would you define chutzpah? Here are three anecdotes, any of which could appear in a dictionary definition as an illustrative…
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Social Issues
Could biometric scanning reduce Medicare fraud?
Ron Lynch is the Managing Partner and founder of NorthStar Business Consulting. Founded in 1990, it focuses on business consulting…
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