Smithsonian Head's Expenses 'Lavish,' Audit Says
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Lawrence M. Small, the top official at the Smithsonian Institution,  accumulated nearly $90,000 in unauthorized expenses from 2000 to 2005, including charges for chartered jet travel, his wife's trip to Cambodia, hotel rooms, luxury car service, catered staff meals and expensive gifts, according to...
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A new stadium for Major League  Baseball in Washington D.C. will cost around $90 million more  than the mayor expects, the city's independent chief financial  officer told the City Council Thursday.
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WASHINGTON - The FBI has a backlog of hundreds of thousands of hours of untranslated audio recordings from terror and espionage investigations, despite large increases in money and personnel for translations since the 2001 terror attacks, a Justice Department audit released Monday said.    In addition, the audit by Glenn A...
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The new coroner at the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed warns about keeping costs under control.
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Paul G. Risser, acting director at the Smithsonianâs National Museum of Natural History, is to step down on Friday after nine months in the job. Mr. Risser, a biologist, will return to his position as chairman of the University of Oklahoma Research Cabinet. âI came here originally for a six-month period, and that has stretched longer,â Mr. Risser, 68, said. He replaced CristiÃ¡n Samper in April, when Mr. Samper was named acting secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Mr. Samper succeeded Lawrence M. Small, who resigned in March after an investigation into his personal spending. While Mr. Risser was acting director, the Smithsonian Regents, its governing body, debated the appropriateness of accepting a $5 million donation for its Ocean Initiative from the American Petroleum Institute, prompting the institute to withdraw the offer.
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LOS ANGELES An audit has concluded that a public relations firm overbilled the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power by more than four (m) million dollars.
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The cost of the new Capitol Visitor Center could run as high as &#36;559 million, more than double the estimated cost when the construction project broke ground in 2000.
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DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - A priest accused along with another clergyman of stealing more than $8 million from their church once griped that an audit of parish funds was "a waste" of money that "should be spent more wisely," newly released court documents show.  The Revs.
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Washington, D.C., led the nation in school budgets, spending $10,829 per pupil, which worked out to almost three times what last-placed Utah spent, according to a report released on Monday.
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A state archivist was charged with stealing hundreds of artifacts Â documents representing "the heritage of all Americans," according to the history buff who found some of them on eBay Â to pay his household bills.
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The head of the government's spending watchdog has been cleared of wrongdoing over his Â£336,000 travel bill.
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The Interfax news agency quoted a source as saying that the sum was contained in an audit that the tax authorities presented to Yukos today.
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Skeptical lawmakers yesterday demanded a detailed accounting of how Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plans to spend $6 billion in supplemental funds that the administration has asked for the State Department this year, much of it for Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Queen Elizabeth II spent more taxpayer money last fiscal year &amp;#151; &#36;67.3 million in all &amp;#151; because of overseas visits and extra security, Buckingham Palace said Wednesday. Overall, the queen and her household spent 4.2 percent more than they did the previous fiscal year, the palace said in its annual expenditures report.
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A new stadium for Major League Baseball in Washington DC will cost around $90 million more than the mayor expects, the city&#39;s independent chief financial officer told the City Council Thursday.
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Former Hollinger International Inc.  HLR.N Chief Executive Conrad Black and other controlling  shareholders used more than $400 million of corporate funds for  personal perks including private jets and club memberships,  according to a report filed on Tuesday.
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National Audit Office could be brought in to check MPs' expenses in the wake of the Conway affair