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SEC workers investigated for porn-surfing

More than two dozen caught viewing sites

Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010

More than two dozen SEC employees and contractors over roughly the past two years have faced internal investigations after they were caught viewing pornography on their government computers, according to records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and other public documents.

Obama's exports pick tied to arms makers

Clients could spur recusals

Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010

President Obama's pick to help oversee U.S. export controls for the Commerce Department is a lawyer and political supporter who has been providing export advice to Fortune 500 companies such as arms manufacturer Raytheon and aerospace giant Boeing.

Taxpayers' bucks spent on trysts, golf, skiing

Federal workers' inflated travel expenditures reveal fraud

Friday, Jan. 22, 2010

From an extra day's hotel stay so military officials can fit in a round of golf to federal workers who fly business class instead of coach, questionable travel expenditures have remained a persistent problem across the federal government in recent years.

Contract cons can exploit Transportation delay

Bids roll in from companies months before suspensions

Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010

The federal government's system of suspending transportation contractors can be so fraught with delays that companies still can compete for contracts while regulators to decide whether to blacklist the businesses.

Law firm on both sides of Fed loan program

Advises government, lobbies for RV industry

Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010

One of the law firms hired to provide legal work for the Treasury Department on a multibillion-dollar federal loan program also lobbied Congress for a private client pushing to expand the same government initiative, records show.

Postal boss moonlights for cash from corporations

Hiring provision allows outside employment

Monday, Jan. 4, 2010

The financially troubled U.S. Postal Service pays Robert F. Bernstock a $232,500 salary to oversee its shipping and mailing division, but a little-known hiring provision allows the executive to earn even more money from outside corporate sources.

EXCLUSIVE: Some passport snoopers still on the job

Memos show 11 admonished but not prosecuted

Friday, Dec. 18, 2009

The nine people who pleaded guilty to snooping into passport files of famous celebrities and politicians were not the only State Department workers who peeked into confidential documents.

Capitol Police papers found on street

Monday, Dec. 7, 2009

Internal U.S. Capitol Police documents marked as "law enforcement sensitive" containing maps were found near a curb recently in front of a 7-Eleven convenience store in Washington.

EXCLUSIVE: Health care pay probe hits top Interior official

Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009

When members of Congress decided in November to start investigating the recipients of seven-figure pay packages in the health insurance industry, they may not have expected to find themselves probing a top Obama administration official.