• News Wrap: DOJ drops criminal probe into Jerome Powell

    News Wrap: DOJ drops criminal probe into Jerome Powell

    Apr 24, 2026 10:50 PM EDT

    ... to Congress about renovations at the Fed's headquarters. Instead, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, said the Fed's inspector general would be looking into cost overruns at the site. The announcement opens a pathway for Kevin Warsh to be confirmed as Powell's ...

  • Justice Department drops criminal probe of Fed chair Powell, likely clearing way for Warsh confirmation

    Justice Department drops criminal probe of Fed chair Powell, likely clearing way for Warsh confirmation

    Apr 24, 2026 03:06 PM EDT

    ... Jeanine Pirro said on X on Friday that her office was ending its probe into the Fed’s extensive building renovations because the Fed’s inspector general would scrutinize them instead. WATCH: Kevin Warsh testifies in Senate Banking confirmation hearing for Fed chair The decision ends an investigation, one of ...

  • LaGuardia Airport collision between jet and fire truck kills pilot and copilot

    LaGuardia Airport collision between jet and fire truck kills pilot and copilot

    Mar 23, 2026 01:55 PM EDT

    ... examining coordination of the airport’s air traffic and ground traffic at the time of the crash, said Mary Schiavo, a former Department of Transportation Inspector General. “I don’t know how many wake-up calls the (Federal Aviation Administration) needs, but this has been happening for years and sadly ...

  • Robert Mueller, former FBI Director who investigated Russia-Trump campaign ties, dies at 81

    Robert Mueller, former FBI Director who investigated Russia-Trump campaign ties, dies at 81

    Mar 21, 2026 07:31 PM EDT

    ... the end of his tenure, Mueller recalled “those days when we were under attack by the media and being clobbered by Congress; when the attorney general was not at all happy with me.” Among the issues: The Justice Department’s inspector general found that the FBI circumvented the law to ...

  • Pete Hegseth's Christian rhetoric reignites scrutiny after the U.S. goes to war with Iran

    Pete Hegseth's Christian rhetoric reignites scrutiny after the U.S. goes to war with Iran

    Mar 20, 2026 03:16 PM EDT

    The Associated Press has not been able to verify these claims, which stem from one source: Mikey Weinstein, the head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a watchdog group. Based on allegations Weinstein said he received from hundreds of troops, 30 Democratic members of Congress asked the Pentagon inspector general ...

  • Trump administration halts Minnesota Medicaid funds over fraud allegations

    Trump administration halts Minnesota Medicaid funds over fraud allegations

    Feb 26, 2026 11:45 PM EDT

    ... just got under way. Lawmakers, Democrats, and Republicans are considering a number of proposals to combat fraud. One of those is setting up a new inspector general's office on the state level. They're also talking about more site visits to ensure that Medicaid providers are providing what they ...

  • Whistleblower warns ICE has slashed training for recruits

    Whistleblower warns ICE has slashed training for recruits

    Feb 26, 2026 11:30 PM EDT

    ... We have clients who come forward. And in this environment, the game has changed. It used to be that you could come forward to an inspector general or an Office of Special Counsel. But those mechanisms have been swept away by the Trump administration. In fact, they have been weaponized ...

  • What to know about the LA school superintendent whose home was searched by the FBI

    What to know about the LA school superintendent whose home was searched by the FBI

    Feb 26, 2026 07:50 PM EDT

    ... nonprofit he founded solicited a $1.57 million donation from an online education company the district planned to use but later dropped. The district’s inspector general concluded that the donation did not violate state or district ethics policies but said it created an “ appearance of impropriety ” and should be ...

  • Fact-checking Trump's false claims ahead of the State of the Union

    Fact-checking Trump's false claims ahead of the State of the Union

    Feb 25, 2026 01:39 AM EDT

    ... migrant children who are allegedly missing. This misrepresents information in an August 2024 report published by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General, which faulted Immigration and Customs Enforcement for failing to consistently “monitor the location and status of unaccompanied migrant children” once they are released ...

  • Olympics trip raises questions about Patel's use of taxpayer dollars

    Olympics trip raises questions about Patel's use of taxpayer dollars

    Feb 23, 2026 11:40 PM EDT

    ... here is that normally these kinds of questions would be addressed through an internal investigation by OPR, the Office of Professional Responsibility, possibly by an inspector general investigation. But the inspector generals are not really operating in the way that they were before. And it's not clear to me ...