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Appeals court in Va. to hear defense fraud case
Tags: Roger Charles Day , contracting , DoD ,
IGs tell managers, employees to beef up fight against workplace fraud
Agency leaders take steps to show they're serious about employee fraud. Too often, they're relying on the inspector general's office to detect corruption.
Tags: corruption , Richard Skinner , Michael Horowitz , DHS , DoJ , whistleblowers , workforce , Ruben Gomez , Association of Government Accountants
Alcatel-Lucent agrees to pay $4.2M to settle fraud claims
Federal prosecutors said the company submitted misleading test certificates concerning the design and construction of a 911 emergency response system in Iraq.
Tags: Alcatel-Lucent , DoD , DoD Report , Federal Drive , Iraq , Justice Department , industry
USDA unveils new steps to stop food stamp fraud
The Agriculture Department says it is going to impose tougher penalties on stores that violate food stamp rules and give states new tools to root out applicants who are ineligible for the benefit program that now covers about 1 out of every 7 Americans.
IRS discouraged fraud detection in ID program
The Internal Revenue Service has been looking the other way instead of rooting out fraud when people apply for taxpayer identification numbers, Treasury Department investigators said Wednesday, exposing a shortfall with both financial and national security implications.
Tags: IRS , Treasury , Doug Shulman , J. Russell George
Senators probe GSA financial controls after conference scandal
The leaders of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee gave the acting GSA administrator 21 days to answer 41 multi-part questions about the agency's efforts to prevent waste, fraud and abuse following the now infamous Western Regions Conference. Senators also recommended the agency review all other recent GSA conferences for possible problems.
Tags: Dan Tangherlini , Brian Miller , Susan Collins , Joseph Lieberman , GSA , conference spending , waste , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee , financial management , Shakeup at GSA , Ruben Gomez
2 contractors sentenced for defrauding DoD
A federal court has sentenced two South Florida aircraft-parts brokers for defrauding the military.
Tags: DoD , DoD Report , Federal Drive , Daytona Aerospace , contracting ,
USDA cracks down on food stamp fraud
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is taking a harder line on fraud in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program.
Tags: Audrey Rowe , SNAP , USDA , Federal Drive , Congress , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
How to combat insider fraud at agencies
Linda Springer, a former controller at the Office of Management and Budget, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss what steps agencies should take to detect and root out insider fraud.
Tags: OMB , Linda Springer , In Depth , Francis Rose , best practices , insider threat , technology
USDA saves $800 million in improper payments from being made
USDA Under Secretary Kevin Concannon says that his department has cut improper payments from 10 percent to less than 4 percent from its Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Tags: USDA , Kevin Concannon , SNAP , Federal Drive , food stamps , Ruben Gomez , Michael OConnell
