While fraud, waste, and abuse continue to plague government, Congress has passed several statutes that are useful in combating this problem. This note discusses these statutes and their application to government fraud. Part A discusses the Travel Act. Part B reviews...
Remember Sustinet, Connecticut’s $1 billion-plus plan to combine Medicaid, state employee health plans and a government-run health insurer? In 2010, MIT health economist Jonathan Gruber performed modeling for the Sustinet plan. Gruber, considered an architect of... ...
In the announcement, the president-elect said the DOGE's work would last through July 4, 2026. Ramaswamy has said the pseudo-department's first task will be "crowdsourcing examples of government waste, fraud, and abuse" from Americans at large. ...
Within US federal government programs, for example, fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) are widespread, largely unmeasured, and a growing drain on taxpayers and citizens, reducing the effectiveness of government services. Given how difficult it is to identify and measure fraudulent activ...
Within US federal government programs, for example, fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) are widespread, largely unmeasured, and a growing drain on taxpayers and citizens, reducing the effectiveness of government services. Given how difficult it is to identify and measure fraudulent activity, the...
Government Accountability Project was responsible forexposing fraud and abuseat the highest levels of theWorld Bank.In May 2007, World Bank PresidentPaul Wolfowitzleft the international organization in the wake of wide-rangingscandalsbased on multiple releases of documents over the previous two months by...
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Indeed, most Americans tell pollsters that they are convinced that deep cuts to these and other popular government programs could be avoided, and substantial savings realized, if only the programs were managed more efficiently and all the "waste, fraud, and abuse" in them eliminated. But this ...
House Republicans blasted the trip as “ripe with waste, fraud and abuse,” but the report found that some of the violations cost the federal government less than $100. Sean Michael Newhouse January 9, 2025 VA accounts for majority of all agencies’ safety- and rights-impacting AI ...
Trump and congressional Republicans have long pointed to combating waste, fraud and abuse as ways to save the federal government money. But that refrain is “often an excuse to do nothing,” said Marc Goldwein, senior policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...