A yogurt company, Chobani, has picked up the tab for unpaid school lunches in a Rhode Island school district. That’s a relief to the school district, but not one likely to be replicated elsewhere. A new report finds that it would take a whole lot of dairy to fix the waste and misspent money in federal school meal programs…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Michael Bastasch GOP Texas Rep. Lamar Smith is demanding the Energy Department (DOE) turn over documents related to the agency paying for a government engineer’s law degree that was completely unrelated to his job. Smith wants to make sure more DOE employees aren’t having taxpayers foot the bill for college…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Nick Givas Special counsel Robert Mueller is now investigating whether or not former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort laundered money, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The WSJ cites “a person familiar with the matter” as their source and claims Congress is also investigating Manafort for laundering funds. The Treasury Department…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrea Vacchiano Martin Shkreli, the former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals who gained notoriety for raising the cost of the AIDS drug Daraprim from $13.50 to $750 a pill, begins a long-awaited securities fraud trial on June 26 in Brooklyn. Shkreli is being accused of running a Ponzi-like scheme between…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck According to The New York Times: A federal judge on Friday gave final approval to a $25 million agreement to settle fraud claims arising from Donald J. Trump’s for-profit education venture, Trump University, rejecting a last-minute objection to the deal. The judge, Gonzalo P. Curiel, in…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follett Dozens of scientific journals hired a fake scientist to editorial positions, and some even took cash payments in exchange for publishing scientific papers. Forty of the the 48 journals examined by researchers offered an editorial position to the fake scientist whose last name actually translated to “Fraud.”…
by Micah J. Fleck Hillary Clinton has been exposed yet again as a liar and fraud in the latest leaked information coming down the pike – this time, in the form of hacked audio of what Clinton clearly thought was a secure conversation about the Bernie Sanders supporters. Reports The Daily Caller: A leaked audio…
by Micah J. Fleck Yes, it’s true – Hillary Clinton’s charitable organization spent 95% of its massive, nearly $92 million budget on employee benefits, campaign fundraising, and “other expenses” in 2014, according to newly uncovered IRS filings. That’s not all, though. In addition to this news, the filings also revealed that when compared to how…
By Micah J. Fleck Well, who would have thought? A government entity that can’t manage money. Only this time, it lied about this fact for years and only got found out in a recent audit. According to Reuters: The new report focused on the Army’s General Fund, the bigger of its two main accounts, with…
By Blake Neff Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown of Florida was indicted on corruption charges likely stemming from her involvement with a massive and reportedly bogus charity. Brown’s exact charges are currently unclear, since the case has been under seal, but she is expected to face arraignment in federal court Friday morning in Jacksonville. Brown, who has…