Even though a Pentagon audit revealed that a Halliburton subsidiary overcharged the United States Government more than $250 million for work in Iraq, the Army announced that it will reimburse the company for the entire $2.41 billion no-bid contract. The Army’s explanation is unsettling with a spokeswoman named Rhonda James saying that “the contractor is

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Florida’s Palm Beach County can’t seem to shed election controversy. During the 2000 presidential election fiasco, the county’s butterfly ballots were the big story and now the high-tech machines that replaced those paper ballots are in the spotlight. A recently released audit of voting-machine logs from the 2004 presidential election reveals that many machines were

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It took two years but California’s Commission on Judicial Performance finally reprimanded a judge for running a real estate business out of his courtroom, using official court letterhead to intimidate tenants and court personnel such as his bailiff to collect rents. In a lengthy letter to Orange County Superior Court Judge John Watson, the state

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The United Nations has become synonymous with fraud and abuse and now U.S. Ambassador John Bolton’s drive to clean house is triggering a backlash from corrupt developing nations who accuse him of encroachment. Beginning this week, Bolton will chair the first of two sessions on financial and sex scandals in the U.N. peacekeeping operations and

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United States intelligence agencies have been secretly removing from public access thousands of historical documents that were available for years, including some that have already been published by various historians and even the State Department. Historians at George Washington University’s National Security Archives discovered the secret operation and made it public to the media. So

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USA Today reports on some questionable ethics involving Senator Specter (R-PA) and one of his legislative assistants: WASHINGTON – Sen. Arlen Specter helped direct almost $50 million in Pentagon spending during the past four years to clients of the husband of one of his top aides, records show. Specter, R-Pa., used a process called “earmarking”

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Federal prosecutors involved in the government’s signature domestic terrorism case against a Muslim charity, mistakenly gave highly classified intelligence materials to the terrorists’ defense attorneys. Arguing for the return of the sensitive counter-terrorism information, government officials wrote that “its disclosure and dissemination could have profound national security and foreign policy implications.” The case involves the

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is supposed to protect human health and assure that the environment is clean for the American people, yet the government agency is protecting politically connected paint manufacturers with deep pockets by refusing to turn over records detailing the levels of smog-causing compounds in their products. New York officials have tried

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Many Louisiana hurricane victims who received federal assistance money in the form of $2000 debit cards used it to pay for condoms, a pistol, strip club fees and expensive tattoos, according to a lengthy report released by the United States Government Accountability Office. Appropriately titled “FEMA’s Control Weaknesses Exposed the Government to Significant Fraud and

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Al-Qaida operatives are everywhere, even in Lodi, a tiny and quiet farming town in northern California best known for its annual grape festival. Federal authorities will reveal details, in a trial that begins today in Sacramento, of a terrorist cell that operates in the 12-square-mile city of about 60,000. The trial will feature a Pakistani

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