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Report: Chicago Police overtime spending result of ‘wide scale waste and…abuse’

by Brian Seay

The Chicago Police Department has spent nearly $100 million a year on officer overtime in the last few years, according to an internal investigation.

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Social Security Administration paid at least $37M to dead vets

by Brian Seay

The SSA works with the Dept. of Veterans Affairs to determine when vets have died, but an agency audit found that some cases are falling through the cracks.

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Audit reveals concerning lack of oversight at federal detention centers

by Christen Smith

The DOJ said an audit of Leavenworth Detention Center raises concerns about a widespread lack of oversight at more than a dozen other facilities nationwide.

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ATF’s management of high-risk informants lacking, audit finds

by Christen Smith

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives mismanages its highest-risk confidential informants, according to a federal audit released Tuesday.

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Audit: ATF lacks ‘adequate oversight’ of payments made to confidential informants

by Christen Smith

ATF lacks “adequate oversight” of the money it pays to confidential informants, according to a federal audit released Tuesday.

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Audit: ATF keeps spotty records on foreign national informants

by Christen Smith

An audit of the ATF reveals its messy record keeping leaves government officials blind to the whereabouts of some foreign national confidential informants.

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Missing guns, cash and drugs from Mass. police evidence room, audit shows

by Christen Smith

Braintree town officials said during a press conference Wednesday some $408,000 in cash, 60 firearms and more than 4,700 pieces of narcotics evidence collected between 1999 and 2016 by the town’s police department are missing from its evidence room.

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Los Angeles VA accused of shredding claims instead of processing them

by Jennifer Cruz

Investigators found at least eight claims marked to be shredded, but noted many were likely shredded before they arrived at the facility for the audit.

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Philadelphia police still trying to locate department’s missing guns

by Jennifer Cruz

Although the firearms aren’t currently accounted for, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey stated, “It’s too soon to say we can’t locate [the firearms]."

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