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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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  • Paul, Obama collect most military donations to run

    By Luke Rosiak - The Washington Times

    Enlisted personnel and civilian military employees are donating more to presidential campaigns than in previous elections, and they overwhelmingly prefer two candidates: Ron Paul, the long-shot Republican presidential contender opposed to using U.S. forces as the "world's police," and President Obama. Published February 9, 2012 Comments

  • 'Operation Fake Sweep' nets $5M in counterfeit NFL items

    By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times

    A nationwide enforcement operation targeting stores, flea markets and street vendors selling counterfeit NFL and Super Bowl memorabilia has netted more than 50,300 counterfeit items that would have sold for more than $5.1 million. Published February 8, 2012 Comments

  • Sixty percent of Obama funds comes from big-money bundlers

    By Luke Rosiak - The Washington Times

    President Obama raised more than $56 million in the fourth quarter of 2011 for his re-election bid, $24 million of which came through a channel that allowed him to raise money from wealthy donors in chunks of more than $30,000. Published January 31, 2012 Comments

  • Wireless firm's creditors demand details of White House meeting

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    Creditors of the bankrupt wireless company Open Range Communications, which closed in October owing more than $70 million in unpaid federal loans, say the Justice Department is refusing to turn over records as part of a court-ordered investigation, including details from a meeting between two top Obama administration officials and the White House. Published January 24, 2012 Comments

  • Public employees union heaps cash into GOP ad attacks on Romney

    By Luke Rosiak - The Washington Times

    An unlikely combatant has jumped into the big-money battle between independent groups running ads weighing in on the Republican presidential primary: a national union representing public employees. Published January 22, 2012 Comments

  • Congressman irked by Solyndra bonuses, equipment destruction

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    The head of a House Energy and Commerce Committee subcommittee investigating the collapse of solar panel maker Solyndra said Friday that tapes showing company workers destroying inventory were "an outrage." Published January 20, 2012 Comments

  • Attorneys for laid-off Solyndra employees rail against bonus plan

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    Attorneys suing Solyndra in a class-action lawsuit on behalf of former employees are criticizing plans by the company to hand out bonuses of up to $50,000 to 21 current supervisors and other employees. Published January 17, 2012 Comments

  • Solyndra payday for former Massachusetts governor

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    Former Massachusetts Gov. William F. Weld will be paid more than $20,000 in legal fees working for bankrupt Solyndra LLC — mostly in connection with congressional hearings during which company executives refused to answer questions. Published January 5, 2012 Comments

  • Gun makers baffled by ATF criteria

    By Chuck Neubauer - The Washington Times

    The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is in charge of determining whether a gun model is legal, but the agency won't say much about its criteria. Published January 2, 2012 Comments

  • Report finds Metro hiring process skirted

    By Luke Rosiak - The Washington Times

    A top manager at Metro created a $140,000-a-year job for a friend whose California-based company had received stimulus funds and contracts from the transit agency — including one for $50,000 that paid for the design of a single banner hanging in Metro's downtown headquarters. Published December 28, 2011 Comments

  • MF Global chief missing $1.2B is financial adviser to EPA

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    Even as he finds himself the public face of investment firm MF Global's bankruptcy and admitted to lawmakers that he had no idea how client funds disappeared, Congress and the administration have voiced no public concern about Bradley Abelow's role advising the $8.6 billion government agency on its finances. Published December 27, 2011 Comments

  • D.C. official to repay stolen $30,000 to city

    By Luke Rosiak and Chuck Neubauer - The Washington Times

    An elected official who stole $30,000 from D.C. taxpayers and spent it on a luxury car and designer clothes will have to repay the money — without penalty — at a rate of $200 a month, according to a settlement announced Thursday by the D.C. Office of the Attorney General. Published December 22, 2011 Comments

  • D.C. lawyer facing probe over claims in Hinckley case

    By Chuck Neubauer - The Washington Times

    The office that polices lawyers in the District of Columbia is investigating whether prominent lawyer Joseph E. diGenova violated ethics rules by falsely claiming he supervised the federal prosecution of John W. Hinckley Jr., who tried to assassinate President Reagan, sources said. Published December 18, 2011 Comments

  • IRS files tax lien of more than $3,200 against Barry

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    D.C. Council member Marion Barry serves on a finance committee overseeing the expenditure of billions of tax dollars, but continues having trouble making good on his own tax bill, records show. Published December 14, 2011 Comments

  • Grand jury begins probe of Solyndra

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    A grand jury has begun investigating Solyndra LLC, the failed California solar-panel maker that lost more than a half-billion dollars in federal loans, according to law-firm billing records. Published December 13, 2011 Comments

  • D.C. clinic accused of fraud in reimbursement bid

    By Jeffrey Anderson - The Washington Times

    A mental health clinic in Southeast Washington stands accused of defrauding Medicaid and the D.C. Department of Health Care Finance by counseling patients without first doing proper diagnostic examinations, cutting corners when it conducts the exams and manipulating requests for reimbursement. Published December 13, 2011 Comments

  • Grassley: Justice Dept.'s Breuer needs to go

    By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times

    The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday called for the resignation of Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, who heads the Justice Department's Criminal Division, saying accountability in the botched Fast and Furious investigation was overdue. Published December 7, 2011 Comments

  • Lack of cash means slower mail delivery

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    The U.S. Postal Service moved to change first-class mail delivery standards for the first time in decades, seeking to end next-day delivery for letters, a grim reminder of the need to save the nation's mail service, one lawmaker said. Published December 5, 2011 Comments

  • Republicans: Solyndra documents withheld

    By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

    House Republicans accused the White House Thursday of blocking the release of documents on the failed half-billion loan to solar panel maker Solyndra LLC, the California company once hailed as a darling of the stimulus program. Published December 1, 2011 Comments

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