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YOUR MONEY:: Secret Service Agent Remains Eligible for Up To $2.1 Million in Taxpayer Funded Pension – Wash Free Beacon
By MB Snow at April 20, 2012 | 11:49 am
BY: Bill McMorris - April 20, 2012 1:19 pm The disgraced Secret Service supervisors accused of engaging in a cocaine-fueled hooker party on the taxpayer dime will still cash in on lucrative taxpayer-funded pensions. Three Secret Service agents tasked with protecting President Barack Obama have been terminated since it was revealed that they reportedly caroused with ... Go To Article
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YOUR MONEY:: D.C. fires workers in unemployment benefits probe – WaPo
By MB Snow at April 18, 2012 | 9:10 am
Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s administration has fired 61 city employees for collecting unemployment benefits while working for the District government, city officials said Tuesday. The city’s Department of Employment Services, which oversees the jobless-compensation program, said in February that dozens of current and former city workers had received the fraudulent ... Go To Article
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INSPECTOR GENERAL:: ‘Running joke’ at GSA to play system to bill taxpayers for food | Fox News
By MB Snow at April 17, 2012 | 8:58 am
The practice of gaming the system in order to bill taxpayers for food at lavish conferences was so widespread within the General Services Administration that it became a "running joke" among certain employees, the GSA inspector general testified Tuesday. Inspector General Brian Miller, who blew the whistle on agency spending with a report on its $820,000 conference in ... Go To Article
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TERRORISM:: Financial lifelines of terrorist groups targeted by U.S. teams | WashEx
By MB Snow at April 17, 2012 | 8:49 am
By Sara A. Carter, April 17, 2012, Washington Examiner As the U.S. is planning its exit from Afghanistan, a group of trained financial experts is focusing on busting up the terrorist organizations and corrupt officials who have ripped off American taxpayers for billions of dollars. The goal is ambitious: not simply to recover money for the U.S. Treasury, but to cripple ... Go To Article
YOUR MONEY:: Ahead of hearing, Issa complains mastermind of GSA conference ‘still being paid’ – Fox News
By MB Snow at April 16, 2012 | 9:26 am
The chairman of the congressional committee holding the first hearing on a federal agency's now-infamous Las Vegas conference complained Monday that the organizer behind the spending spree -- who is also one of his key witnesses -- is still being paid. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, noted that Jeffrey Neely ... Go To Article
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YOUR MONEY:: Who foots bill when Obama travels? – WashTimes
By MB Snow at April 13, 2012 | 10:06 am
By Susan Crabtree-The Washington Times Thursday, April 12, 2012 When President Obama traveled to Florida this week, he sandwiched a partisan speech at Florida Atlantic University between two multimillion-dollar fundraisers for his 2012 campaign, allowing him to label at least part of the trip to a critical battleground state as official business. While Mr. Obama can ... Go To Article
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YOUR MONEY:: Report: US Government Spent At Least $945M On Advertising In 2010 – Fox News
By MB Snow at March 19, 2012 | 11:04 am
Published March 19, 2012 | FoxNews.com Federal agencies spent at least $945 million on contracts for advertising services in fiscal year 2010, and that sum doesn't include all public communications expenditures in the agencies reviewed or even all of the executive branch, a congressional report out last week shows. Congressional Research Service reported that the ... Go To Article
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YOUR MONEY:: Government to seek court approval of $25 billion mortgage pact – Yahoo! News
By MB Snow at March 10, 2012 | 12:00 am
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Reuters) - A previously announced $25 billion settlement between five major banks accused of abusive mortgage practices and government officials will be filed in federal court on Monday, people familiar with the matter said late Friday. The pact unveiled February 9 is expected to result in payments and other mortgage relief for about one million ... Go To Article
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YOUR MONEY:: Group sues for Michelle Obama vacation records – POLITICO
By MB Snow at March 8, 2012 | 10:08 am
A conservative legal group is suing the U.S. Air Force for access to first lady Michelle Obama's travel records from a 2010 vacation to Spain. Judicial Watch filed suit Tuesday in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for access to all records pertaining to an August 2010 vacation taken by the first lady and her daughters — including cost ... Go To Article
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YOUR MONEY:: Lotto Winner Continues to Use Food Stamps – DC
By MB Snow at March 7, 2012 | 11:27 am
Lottery winner using food stamps: ‘I thought maybe it was okay because I’m not working’ While most people have played the “if I had a million dollars I would ____ ” thought game, few fill that blank in with “stay on public assistance.” Amanda Clayton, a 24-year-old from Lincoln Park, Michigan, is one of the few who does, and she is getting away with ... Go To Article
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