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New audits may recover missing millions — or not
After years of criticism that they cost taxpayers too much, private Medicare Advantage health plans are facing landmark audits that for the first time could order them to repay the government tens of...
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Skyrocketing salaries for health insurance CEOs
If health insurance companies announce big premium increases on policies for 2015, I hope regulators, lawmakers and the media will look closely at whether they are justified, especially in light of...
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Obama nominates campaign fundraiser as next ambassador to France
President Barack Obama has selected Jane Hartley, a major campaign bundler, to be the next U.S. ambassador to France, the White House announced Friday afternoon.Hartley, the chief executive officer of...
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L.A. judge objects to school police getting millions reserved for struggling...
Los Angeles’ top juvenile court judge is objecting to a planned diversion of $13 million to school police there from state funds earmarked to provide special learning assistance to disadvantaged kids....
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Get involved: Help Medicare Advantage investigation go further with donations...
Over this past week we published the Medicare Advantage Money Grab investigation, which reveals that billions of tax dollars are wasted every year through leakage of a Medicare payment tool called a...
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Home is where the money is for Medicare Advantage plans
Third in a three-part series.Some of the senior citizens who called Arizona insurance agent Denise Early wondered why their Medicare Advantage health plans were eager to send a doctor to visit them at...
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Medicare Advantage lobbying machine steamrolls Congress
Sen. Al Franken didn’t mince words when he accused Medicare Advantage plans of overcharging the federal government — and praised legislation to slash their payments by billions of dollars.“These...
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After Lindsey Graham met billionaire, supportive super PAC secured donation...
In early March, billionaire John Catsimatidis met privately in New York City with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., where the two men lamented the still-fragile economy and chewed over other national...
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Outside money pouring into governors races
With the election still five months away, attack ads have already hit the airwaves in Michigan’s gubernatorial race thanks to two national organizations that are on pace to break spending records this...
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Federal auditors say Obama administration underestimates nuclear weapons costs
A new audit of the government’s estimated spending to maintain its nuclear deterrent in the next decade concludes that the expenses will likely be at least tens of billions of dollars more than the...
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CPI-NPR collaboration wins Edward R. Murrow Award
A 2013 collaboration between the Center for Public Integrity and NPR has been honored with a prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award.The Radio Television Digital News Association announced Wednesday that...
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Lobbyists boost Senate Democrats
Well-heeled federal lobbyists are quietly helping embattled Democrats raise serious campaign cash ahead of November’s midterm elections, according to a Center for Public Integrity review of federal...
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How lobbyists helped build John Cornyn’s election war chest
When U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, needed help fortifying his campaign war chest against a pesky and potentially dangerous tea party challenger, a small army of lobbyists volunteered.Government...
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Health insurance lobby keeps Medicare Advantage overpayments flowing
A year-long investigation by the Center for Public Integrity has revealed that health insurers may have fleeced taxpayers out of $70 billion in just five years.You would think members of Congress in...
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Federal contract employee reviewed 15,152 security clearances in a month,...
Auditors for the office that oversees the approval of all federal security clearances have apparently located the most productive federal contract worker in America.An unnamed employee at U.S....
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An ethical mess in South Carolina
On a recent Thursday, a light rain was washing against the office window of South Carolina's first-term attorney general, Alan Wilson. On the floor near his desk, about a dozen thick black binders...
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Fourth case reopened after Center uncovers judicial conflict of interest
A federal appeals court has scrapped a 2010 foreclosure ruling in favor of Wells Fargo Bank after a Center for Public Integrity investigation revealed that one of the three judges who participated in...
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IRS chief promises stricter rules for 'dark money' nonprofit groups
The Internal Revenue Service will propose new and specific rules defining how much money “social welfare” nonprofits may spend on political campaigns, Commissioner John Koskinen said Tuesday during an...
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Credit rating industry dodges reforms, despite role in financial meltdown
The California Public Employee Retirement System requires that bonds it holds be rated by one of the top three credit raters even after it sued those companies for issuing “untrue, inaccurate and...
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Lawmakers complain about shoddy intelligence contractor database
The U.S. intelligence community has been outsourcing much of its sensitive work to private contractors, but it’s had a hard time figuring out just how much and explaining why. That’s made it...
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