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  • YOUR TAX DOLLARS? This Internet screen grab of an episode of "Diary of a Single Mom" features a guest appearance by actor Billy Dee Williams. (pic.tv)

    Online soap opera cleans up with stimulus broadband cash

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    You may not have seen the show “Diary of a Single Mom” co-starring Billy Dee Williams, but your tax dollars helped pay for it. Published December 1, 2011 Comments

  • Chief Financial Officer W.G. Stover from the bankrupt solar energy company Solyndra refuses to answer questions as he appears before the House Energy Commitee's Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee on Sept. 23 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

    Solyndra beats back federal takeover, but not Justice concerns

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    Solar-panel maker Solyndra LLC defeated a proposed government takeover bid, but the attempt underscored the depth of concerns in recent weeks at the Justice Department about the roles played by the bankrupt company’s top financial officer and its board of directors. Published October 19, 2011 Comments

  • Postal Service favored Netflix, regulators rule

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    Four years after inspectors found that the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service could save tens of millions of dollars by charging Netflix for hand-sorting its DVD mailers, postal executives have refused to make the change. Now, regulators are calling the Postal Service’s treatment of Netflix discriminatory. Published April 26, 2011 Comments

  • Green Bay Packers fans cheer after a game, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011, in Chicago. With the Superbowl nearing, the ICE has seized more than 36,000 phony Super Bowl-related items nationwide, including fake jerseys, ball caps, t-shirts, jackets (AP Photo/Jim Prisching)

    Crackdown nets $3.5 million in phony NFL gear

    By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, assisted by federal, state and local law enforcement authorities, have seized more than 36,000 phony Super Bowl-related items nationwide along with other counterfeit goods worth $3.56 million — including $554,280 in bogus goods in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Published February 4, 2011 Comments

  • Friends and relatives carry Steve Sall's body to a grave at the White Eagle Memorial Preserve, a natural burial ground outside Goldendale, Wash. Sall, who died from complications from Lou Gehrig's disease, chose to be buried in this private forest. (Associated Press)

    More Americans choosing ‘green’ burials

    By Manuel Valdes - Associated Press

    A small but growing number of Americans are choosing environmentally friendly burials. Published October 17, 2010 Comments

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  • Government steps up its mortgage fraud probe

    By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times

    The Justice Department has expanded its ongoing effort to uncover the mortgage fraud and abuse that helped precipitate the 2008 financial crisis, offering "substantial financial help" to corporate insiders willing to serve as whistleblowers.

  • Key figure in lavish Vegas junket leaves GSA

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    Jeffrey Neely, the central figure in a lavish taxpayer-funded Las Vegas convention that saw magic acts and federal workers sipping martinis on a red carpet, has left the General Services Administration.

  • GOP senators slam federal judges' plan for retreat at Maui resort

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    Two senior Republican senators want to know why a group of federal judges and court employees plan to hold a convention this summer at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort & Spa, an oceanfront hotel where the website invites prospective guests to "frolic," "pamper" and "play."

  • More images, videos reveal GSA fun at 2010 Vegas conference

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    Except for the cocktails, beer and wine, many of the scenes from the now infamous 2010 General Services Administration conference gave the appearance of a fun summer camp.

  • Four GOP lawmakers hit Holder on guns operation

    By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times

    Four senior House Republicans say Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has not fully cooperated with a congressional subpoena seeking information on the botched "Fast and Furious" gunrunning operation and suggested the nation's top prosecutor comply with a 7-month-old subpoena or face the consequences.

  • GSA's mentalist also a hit at Alabama Army base

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    A lavish 2010 Las Vegas conference for federal workers costing taxpayers more than $800,000 famously featured the services of a motivational speaker and mind reader, but it wasn't the trade show magician's first government gig.

  • Yikes! Bed bugs invade D.C. health offices

    By Jeffrey Anderson - The Washington Times

    Bed bugs have infested the vital statistics department of the D.C. Department of Health, according to emails obtained by The Washington Times that show DOH officials have been slow to eradicate the problem.

  • Job Corps facility in D.C. late and over budget

    By Chuck Neubauer - The Washington Times

    A federally funded Job Corps vocational training complex in Southwest Washington was supposed to cost taxpayers $5.5 million, but the Labor Department says it needs another $2.7 million to finish the job, which has been plagued by bad weather, landslides, battles with unpaid subcontractors and charges of shoddy construction, records and interviews show.

  • Money to Thompson goes back to Williams' first term

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    On the day before the D.C. financial control board returned city finances to local officials more than a decade ago, it approved a preliminary $1.8 million, no-bid deal with a company run by health care contractor Jeffrey E. Thompson to open a 24/7 health clinic for low-income residents of Southeast.

  • Possible D.C. health plan buyer settled Kentucky fraud suit in 2011

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    One of the companies that has emerged as a potential buyer for a troubled local health plan that covers many D.C. Medicaid recipients settled a $2 million fraud lawsuit filed by Kentucky state officials last year.

  • Romney super PAC donors put at credit card risk

    By Luke Rosiak - The Washington Times

    The political fund that has raised more than $50 million to support Mitt Romney's bid for the presidency has been collecting money online with a system so insecure that it exposes donors' credit card information to even casual snoopers.

  • Administration making 'progress' in fighting sex trafficking

    By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times

    Sex trafficking is a big moneymaker for criminals and a scourge to society, a top Justice Department official said Thursday, adding that traffickers callously seek to furnish their market with "women, girls and boys who have been cast out by society and whose options are few."

  • Metro closes ranks against outside 'attacks'

    By Luke Rosiak - The Washington Times

    A top official at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, in response to a Washington Times investigation that found a lack of accountability and racism at the transit agency, has issued a memo to all rail employees quoting Whitney Houston and encouraging employees to band together against the outside world.

  • Chief Lanier's salary could hit roadblock

    By Jeffrey Anderson - The Washington Times

    D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier, whose five-year employment contract expired in April, is negotiating a new pact that could further elevate her $253,000 per year salary, the fourth-highest in the nation.

  • Secret files missing at National Archives

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    The National Archives and Records Administration has lost track of dozens of boxes of confidential and secret government files at its records center just outside of Washington, the latest in a series of such incidents spanning more than a decade.

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