• $2 trillion virus rescue bill hits late snags in U.S. Senate

    $2 trillion virus rescue bill hits late snags in U.S. Senate

    Mar 25, 2020 09:11 PM EST

    ... than $300 billion, which dwarfs earlier disasters — including Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy combined.To provide transparency, the package is expected to create a new inspector general and oversight board for the corporate dollars, much as was done during the 2008 bank rescue, officials said. Europe is enacting its own ...

  • WATCH: Trump, White House coronavirus task force holds press briefing on outbreak

    WATCH: Trump, White House coronavirus task force holds press briefing on outbreak

    Mar 25, 2020 06:52 PM EST

    A companion appropriations package ballooned as well, growing from a $46 billion White House proposal to more than $300 billion, which dwarfs earlier disasters — including Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy combined. To provide transparency, the package is expected to create a new inspector general and oversight board for the corporate ...

  • Novel coronavirus-related crimes capitalize on global panic

    Novel coronavirus-related crimes capitalize on global panic

    Mar 24, 2020 11:45 PM EST

    ... Medicare number or your Social Security number under the guise of having a test kit or a sanitary kit sent to you,” Christian Schrank, assistant inspector general for investigations at Health and Human Services. The worldwide outbreak has sickened more than 350,000 people and left more than 15,000 ...

  • How Senate bill would ease pandemic's economic burden

    How Senate bill would ease pandemic's economic burden

    Mar 24, 2020 10:45 PM EST

    To put up some of the compromises that they made, it's dealing with large corporations. There's going to be $500 billion going for these large business loans. There's going to be now an inspector general and an oversight board to look at how Secretary Mnuchin, Treasury Secretary ...

  • Sanders says coronavirus testing still ‘woefully inadequate’

    Sanders says coronavirus testing still ‘woefully inadequate’

    Mar 24, 2020 10:33 PM EST

    ... improvement in that situation in the last few hours. Judy Woodruff: Yes. And we were told that there has been serious conversation, negotiations over an inspector general and over an oversight board, so -- but we're waiting, as you say, to see the details. Senator, another piece of this is ...

  • Feds see uptick in virus frauds preying on Medicare recipients

    Feds see uptick in virus frauds preying on Medicare recipients

    Mar 24, 2020 12:50 AM EST

    ... group to share information on the quickly evolving scams and route leads to the agencies best equipped to investigate. The phone number for the HHS inspector general's hotline is 800-HHS-TIPS, and the National Center for Disaster Fraud hotline is at 866-720-5721. Anti-fraud experts say ...

  • House set to vote on bill extending surveillance authorities

    House set to vote on bill extending surveillance authorities

    Mar 11, 2020 04:40 AM EST

    ... and Russia, when the FBI omitted key information from its applications to eavesdrop on a former campaign adviser, according to a harshly critical Justice Department inspector general report. Trump has long been skeptical of the nation’s intelligence community, particularly over its assessment that Russia interfered in the last presidential ...

  • Why it was so difficult for HHS to reunite separated migrant families

    Why it was so difficult for HHS to reunite separated migrant families

    Mar 05, 2020 11:40 PM EST

    ... so we can be sure that we can identify separated children to make sure they get appropriate care and then reunite with their parent, if appropriate. Lisa Desjardins: So important to keep following this. Ann Maxwell of the Inspector General's Office of HHS, thank you. Ann Maxwell: Thank you.

  • Barr to meet with Senate Republicans on surveillance laws

    Barr to meet with Senate Republicans on surveillance laws

    Feb 25, 2020 05:27 PM EST

    ... for reforms to the government’s secret surveillance program for those posing a national security risk. Their efforts have intensified after the Justice Department’s inspector general in December issued a scathing report that detailed significant errors and omissions in four applications to the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to ...

  • Federal agents' shootings escape scrutiny, use-of-force reforms

    Federal agents' shootings escape scrutiny, use-of-force reforms

    Feb 25, 2020 02:06 AM EST

    ... financial crimes. Yet its operations are largely overshadowed by the department's border detention units and illegal immigration roundups. The Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General has released a half-dozen reports since 2016 highlighting deficiencies in management, training, oversight and use of force within the department and its ...