Department of Billion-dollar Bungling
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How the Interior Department managed to lose about $2 billion of the public's money. Can this mess be cleaned up?
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U.S. authorities said on Tuesday they had charged 29 people in a scheme to smuggle counterfeit goods including designer handbags and jeans into the United States, mostly from China, worth $700 million.
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The Defense Department's major weapons programs have suffered cost overruns in the billions of dollars, years-long delays and quality shortfalls because of poor acquisition practices by the department, according to a report released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office.
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The U.S. government ratifies a multilateral effort dealing with worms, fraud and child exploitation.
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Several years ago, the manager of a big insurance company received an odd request from a counterpart at Marsh &amp; McLennan, the world&#39;s largest insurance broker.
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Leading U.S. business groups on Thursday urged stronger U.S government action to stop trafficking of pirated or counterfeit goods, which they said costs the U.S. economy between $200 to $250 billion per year.
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The largest Homeland Security Department contractors include two companies which paid millions to settle charges they defrauded the Pentagon, one firm which paid a foreign corruption fine and a business accused of botching a computer system for veterans hospitals, records show.
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Private consultants hired by the Department of Homeland Security have found widespread problems with its contracting operation, including nearly three dozen contract files that could not be located.
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The company says it is discussing a settlement with the Justice Department.
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The New York attorney general is pursuing reports of payoffs that may increase coverage costs for tens of millions.
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By Mike Lee, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 27--FORT WORTH -- High-ranking city officials tried to hush up nearly $2 million in cost overruns in the city's information technology department, according to a lawsuit by a former manager in the department.
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Disclosures of bid-rigging within the insurance industry may lead Congress to a ''Pandora's box&quot; of unethical conduct, a top investigator told Congress yesterday, just before two more executives pleaded guilty.
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Company cites breech of policy requiring use of encryption software when sensitive information is downloaded.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Transactions worldwide by  organized crime reach $2 trillion every year, and about half  that amount goes toward corruption and bribes, the United  Nations drugs and crime watchdog said on Wednesday.
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KAIPING, China -- In this city and many others in China, senior officials are embezzling tens of millions of dollars and fleeing overseas with their families.
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The World Bank and the United Nations are creating a system to help track assets stolen by corrupt leaders.
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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will attempt to salvage parts of a $170 million case-management software package despite growing criticism that the 4-year-old project doesn't work as expected.ADVERTISEMENTReducing the Total Cost of OwnershipLearn how to reduce the total coast of ownership in enterprise data management in this case study.