• Oregon officials decry federal agents after protest clashes

    Oregon officials decry federal agents after protest clashes

    Jul 18, 2020 10:40 PM EST

    ... difficult circumstances, rebuffing protesters who tried to enter the federal courthouse or who shot commercial fireworks. But he said Friday he had asked the DHS inspector general to investigate reports that agents arrested people without probable cause. On Friday night, hundreds of people gathered for a vigil outside the downtown ...

  • Presence, tactics of federal agents in Portland, Oregon, prompt questions and criticism

    Presence, tactics of federal agents in Portland, Oregon, prompt questions and criticism

    Jul 17, 2020 10:45 PM EST

    ... this is a tactic they use. The U.S. attorney in Oregon here, Billy Williams, announced an investigation, or he requested that the Homeland Security inspector general launch an investigation into possible arrests being done without probable cause. Amna Nawaz: And there's a lot of questions about their tactics ...

  • News Wrap: EU's top court voids data-sharing deal with U.S. tech companies

    News Wrap: EU's top court voids data-sharing deal with U.S. tech companies

    Jul 16, 2020 10:48 PM EST

    ... that order in place. The head of Medicaid and Medicare, Seema Verma, is under fire over alleged mismanagement of $6 million in communications contracts. An inspector general's report says she let a Republican media consultant have too much authority over federal employees. Verma says the findings are based on ...

  • WATCH: House Homeland Security Committee holds hearing on migrant children health in CBP custody

    WATCH: House Homeland Security Committee holds hearing on migrant children health in CBP custody

    Jul 15, 2020 02:56 PM EST

    HOUSTON (AP) — A government auditor did not employ medical professionals when his office cleared U.S. border agents of wrongdoing in the deaths of two Guatemalan children, the auditor said Wednesday. Watch the hearing in the video player above. Joseph Cuffari, the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general, testified ...

  • Fired VA staffer admits to murdering 7 patients with insulin

    Fired VA staffer admits to murdering 7 patients with insulin

    Jul 14, 2020 11:18 PM EST

    ... where there was sufficient evidence against Mays.U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, who previously expressed "grave concerns over the pace of the investigation" to Attorney General William Barr, said then that the VA inspector general told his office that the probe was opened in July 2018, after at least nine ...

  • WATCH: White House holds news briefing amid a surge in U.S. virus cases

    WATCH: White House holds news briefing amid a surge in U.S. virus cases

    Jul 01, 2020 08:01 PM EST

    ... CMS also says it has redoubled emphasis on inspections for infection control. Investigative agencies like the Government Accountability Office and the Health and Human Services inspector general are also focusing on nursing homes, which house a tiny share of the population but represent a large proportion of COVID deaths. The ...

  • Barr agrees to testify as House panel investigates whether he has politicized the DOJ

    Barr agrees to testify as House panel investigates whether he has politicized the DOJ

    Jun 24, 2020 05:37 PM EST

    ... committee, Elias plans to detail antitrust investigations that he says were started over the objections of career staff. He says he asked the department's inspector general to investigate "whether these matters constituted an abuse of authority, a gross waste of funds, and gross mismanagement." The Justice Department said in ...

  • Top prosecutor in NYC resigns after feud with administration

    Top prosecutor in NYC resigns after feud with administration

    Jun 20, 2020 10:09 PM EST

    ... Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said his committee was inviting Berman to testify this coming week. Schumer called for the department's inspector general and Office of Professional Responsibility to investigate. Berman's statement Friday night said he would stay on the job until a nominee was ...

  • Why minority-owned businesses are struggling to get PPP loans

    Why minority-owned businesses are struggling to get PPP loans

    Jun 20, 2020 09:19 PM EST

    ... owned. As a result, the initial $359 billion dried up in two weeks. And in a report released last month, the SBA Office of the Inspector General found that minority-owned businesses may not have received the loans as intended because the SBA failed to “provide guidance to lenders about ...

  • State Department official quits over Trump response to racial tensions, report says

    State Department official quits over Trump response to racial tensions, report says

    Jun 19, 2020 12:27 AM EST

    ... for why the State Department officials, including Pompeo and other top aides, had chosen to comment extensively on the decision to fire the department's Inspector General Steve Linick in May. In her role in the Trump administration, Taylor helped guide more than 400 presidential appointments through the Senate, including ...