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
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
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
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
By Manuel Valdes - Associated Press
A small but growing number of Americans are choosing environmentally friendly burials. Published October 17, 2010 Comments
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
