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September 8, 2016
By Ari Goldberg
Long-Buried IG Report on BLM Reveals Gifts from Oil & Gas Industry, Other Violations
A report hidden from the public for three years finds former Bureau of Land Management employee Steve Henke “violated agency policy, federal laws, and the Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch.”
Topics: Government Accountability
August 29, 2016
By Neil Gordon
Whistleblower Rejects $8 Million Award to Protest Revolving Door
Eric Ben-Artzi turned down an $8.25 million award for blowing the whistle on fraud at Deutsche Bank because the government let the company’s executives off the hook.
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August 18, 2016
POGO’s 2016 Summer Reading List
Summer is coming to an end but there’s still time to reenergize yourself with a book that matters! Take your pick of the latest books on nuclear policy, national security, or government oversight (or in some cases, lack thereof.)
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Topics: Government Accountability, Open Government, Whistleblower Protections, Energy and Natural Resources, National Security, Financial Sector, Public Health and Science, Contract Oversight
June 23, 2016
By Neil Gordon
Indicted GSA Official is a Blast from POGO’s Past
Bells went off when we saw that former GSA official Helen “Renee” Ballard was indicted for a fraud and nepotism scheme involving large federal contractor CACI. Flashback to 2006…
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Topics: Contract Oversight
April 22, 2016
POGO Wins National Journalism Prize for Reporting on FDA
The Society of Professional Journalists has awarded the Project On Government Oversight a Sigma Delta Chi Award for POGO’s coverage of potentially deadly weaknesses in FDA oversight of prescription drugs.
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Topics: Government Accountability, Public Health and Science
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This Land is Our Land
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) raises this important issue in our latest podcast. POGO investigator Mia Steinle talks about the woefully outdated royalty programs for the mining and drilling of natural resources on public lands.
