Richard Pollock

Published: Wed, Mar 27, 2013

Citing worries that "taxpayers will lose a significant amount of the money," House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform officials are significantly expanding their probe of the $2 billion Obamacare loan program to fund new health insurance co-operatives to compete with established...

Examiner Watchdog Staff

Updated: Thu, Mar 21, 2013

When President Obama nominated former Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew to succeed Tim Geithner as Secretary of Treasury, eyebrows were raised in some quarters when it was reported that Lew was rewarded by his former employer, Citigroup, for making the jump from Wall Street to...

Examiner Watchdog Staff

Updated: Wed, Mar 20, 2013

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden told a congressional panel this afternoon that 192 Chinese nationals work in or around his agency, along with 89 foreign nationals from other countries. Bolden is testifying before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee which has oversight...

Examiner Watchdog Staff

Published: Wed, Mar 20, 2013

A Santa Clara County, California, judge's decision ordering local officials there to turn over their private emails linked to their conduct of official business could have significance for Washington's Windsorgate scandal at the Environmental Protection Agency, according to one of the central...

Examiner Watchdog Staff

Published: Mon, Mar 18, 2013

Sunshine Week 2013 wraps up today with the sixth annual Freedom of Information Day Celebration hosted by the Washington College of Law's Collaboration on Government Secrecy program. The celebration program is overseen by Dan Metcalfe, the former long-time director of the Department of Justice...

Examiner Watchdog Staff

Updated: Sat, Mar 16, 2013

Environmental Protection Agency officials posted another batch of Windsorgate emails Friday but the conservative think tank at the center of continuing scandal said missing from the release "are what should be the dominant class of records covered by our request seeking records: Gina McCarthy...

Examiner Watchdog Staff

Updated: Fri, Mar 15, 2013

A California couple has been sentenced to federal prison for defrauding seven banks, including two banks that received Troubled Asset Relief Program funds, in connection with a $130 million line of credit, according to the Special Inspector-General for the TARP program. Thomas Chia Fu, 64, of...

Examiner Watchdog Staff

Published: Thu, Mar 14, 2013

House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rep. Doc Hastings, R-WA, isn't happy that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar refused to provide documents his panel requested last September on how aggressively the department is enforcing federal ethics laws and regulations. Hastings' committee...

Examiner Watchdog Staff

Published: Tue, Mar 12, 2013

Almost a quarter-million veterans wait more than a year to have their initial claims for disability payments processed by the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to a new report from the Center for Investigative Reporting. Those with first-time claims for benefits - including veterans...

Examiner Watchdog Staff

Updated: Mon, Mar 11, 2013

Residents of eight states get some good news from the Sunlight Foundation to start Sunshine Week - they live in states that got A grades for their legislative transparency. The eight most transparent states include: Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Kansas, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Texas...