Interior Official Assails Agency for Ethics Slide
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The agencyÂs inspector general accused Interior Department officials of widespread ethical failures from cronyism to cover-ups of incompetence.
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The agency that collects royalties from oil and gas producers lacks the data, coordination and manpower to keep track of companies operating on federal land and in federal waters, a report by the Interior Department's inspector general said.
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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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An investigation of tunnel leaks in the Big Dig highway project was repeatedly hindered by officials of the top contractor and the state agency that manages it, says the retired judge who led the probe.
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By JOHN HEILPRIN  WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for tighter ethics rules in federal agencies Wednesday after government officials approved the purchase of a $980,000 vacation home by a top Justice Department lawyer with an oil company lobbyist.
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Big oil companies were able to avoid   paying the government billions of dollars in royalties normally   due on drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico because of   "bureaucratic bungling" at the U.S. Interior Department, the   department's inspector general told Congress on Wednesday.
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Two S.E.C. officials have now expressed serious concerns about how the agency is conducting its inquiry into a prominent hedge fund, Pequot Capital Management.
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Anyone who thinks Washington is an ethical quagmire should talk to a cross-section of government employees, who say the problem is worse at the state and local levels.
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Despite hours of confrontational interviews of Bernard Kerik by the White House counsel, Alberto Gonzales, the White House failed to get a full picture of the legal and ethical problems of its nominee for homeland-security secretary, a government official
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Fissures within cycling that have plagued the sport again surfaced at the Tour de France Friday when the race director lashed out at cyclingâs governing body.
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The Bush administration's new federal disaster-response plan drew harsh criticism yesterday from state and local officials only a day after it was unveiled, prompting fresh calls by House Democrats to make the Federal Emergency Management Agency a stand-alone Cabinet-level agency.
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An official said there was a debate within the Bush administration over whether to press for an international investigation.
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Food and Drug Administration whistle-blower David J. Graham believes he will soon be transferred or fired in retaliation for telling a congressional hearing that the agency is falling short
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Americans may sometimes wonder whether any branch of the federal government has been left unpoliticized. Among the latest to claim attention is the Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), charged with safeguarding plants and animals under the Endangered Species Act.
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Every few years, a whistle-blower arrives on Capitol Hill and shakes up a federal agency with charges of incompetence and misfeasance.
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The agency had accused an executive at Brightpoint Inc. of overstating the companyâs actual earnings through improper use of an insurance policy.
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Dissatisfied with the agency's greenhouse-gas emissions program, labor leaders are pleading for congressional intervention.