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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

Recent Articles
  • Federal task force takes down Medicare fraud racket

    By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times

    Federal law enforcement authorities have arrested 89 people, including doctors and nurses, in eight cities suspected of participating in Medicare fraud schemes involving more than $223 million in false billings. Published May 14, 2013

  • ICE alleges imported honey scam

    By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times

    Five persons and two domestic honey-processing companies were charged Wednesday in a federal probe targeting a multimillion dollar smuggling operation bringing Chinese-origin honey into the United States. Published February 20, 2013

  • D.C. officials skirt residency rule with shared pied-a-terre

    By Jeffrey Anderson - The Washington Times

    Two D.C. agency directors have a lot in common. They are married to women who live outside the District and they own homes in Maryland, yet they bunk together in a subterranean bachelor pad in Northeast -- a direct result of a D.C. law that says such officials must reside in the District. Published February 19, 2013

  • Hospital contract concerns go before D.C. Council

    By Jeffrey Anderson - The Washington Times

    The D.C. Council chairman will hold a hearing to look into concerns about the legitimacy of a contract award to overhaul a troubled city-owned hospital before a Feb. 19 vote on the deal. Published February 6, 2013

  • Pro-Menendez Hispanic media outlet suddenly, strangely goes quiet amid scandal

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    The news organization Voxxi prides itself as an independent source of journalism for Hispanics across the United States unafraid to tackle issues ignored by the mainstream media, but there is one big story the online media outlet has all but steered clear of in recent days. Published February 4, 2013

  • Foreign bids called critical to A123 sale

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    The prospect of Massachusetts-based high-tech battery-maker A123 Systems landing in the hands of a Chinese competitor has angered some lawmakers, but a group of highly paid lawyers — including a former Senate staffer who earned more than $1,000 per-hour — kept the sale from falling apart amid mounting criticism on Capitol Hill. Published January 30, 2013

  • D.C. tax lien on Google simply a $300,000 goof

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    While Google makes billions of dollars per year in profits, the company — for a few days anyway — found itself among a list of local scofflaws hit with tax liens filed by the D.C. government. Published January 17, 2013

  • Former FEMA official guilty in conflict case

    By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times

    The former director of human resources at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Washington to a charge of conflict of interest for negotiating employment with a polling and consulting services company that had a multimillion-dollar contract with FEMA that he supervised. Published January 15, 2013

  • Watchdog looks at cost of 'flat rate' ads for USPS

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    A recent audit into Postal Service advertising expenditures for fiscal 2011 has uncovered millions of dollars in questionable costs as postal officials pushed hard to publicize shipping products in the face of sharply declining first-class mail volume. Published January 14, 2013

  • D.C.'s attorney general backs speed-camera ticket

    By Jeffrey Anderson - The Washington Times

    D.C. Attorney General Irvin B. Nathan took the unusual step this week of opining on the dismissal of a speed-camera citation issued to a Metropolitan Police Department sergeant who captured widespread attention last month from the public, consumer advocates and the media when he successfully appealed a Third Street Tunnel ticket to the Department of Motor Vehicles. Published January 9, 2013

  • Dormant liberties agency awakens to tasks

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    A presidentially appointed panel charged with ensuring federal laws don't impede Americans' civil liberties has nothing to show for itself in recent years, failing to meet even once during a five-year span because vacancies had left the board dormant for so long. Published January 7, 2013

  • Securities industry ban asked for executive

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    A Washington-area executive accused in a lawsuitof bilking millions of dollars from a charity founded more than 200 years ago by Dolley Madison is facing a lifetime ban from the securities industry. Published December 25, 2012

  • Ex-border officer, 3 others, plead guity to bribery, smuggling charges

    By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times

    A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer, his girlfriend and two of their associates pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to a multiyear scheme along the U.S.-Mexico border in which he solicited hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and let nearly 200 illegal immigrants enter the U.S. Published December 13, 2012

  • Diplomats immuned to charges of human trafficking

    By Chuck Neubauer - The Washington Times

    Despite a global crackdown on human traffickers and a pledge by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that stopping this type of "modern slavery" was a top priority, foreign diplomats in the United States remain immune from punishment when they abuse members of their household staffs. Published December 13, 2012

  • U.S. wary of Chinese bidder for bankrupt battery maker

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    Democratic and Republican politicians alike hailed the news in 2009 that U.S. battery maker A123 Systems had won a quarter-billion-dollar federal grant, but just three years later, the company finds itself bankrupt and the target of a buyout by a Chinese competitor. Published December 10, 2012

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