Category: Government
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/ 5323 SEEN/ Medicare fraud outrunning enforcement efforts; failures to investigate and more cuts comingBy Fred Schulte 
 Center for Public Integrity
 Citing massive budget and staff cuts, federal officials are set to scale back or drop a host of investigations into Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse — even though cracking down on government waste and cutting health care costs have been top priorities for the Obama administration.
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/ 11345 SEEN/ Majority of Supreme Court justices are millionaires; Ginsburg, Breyer top list of wealthiestBy Reity O’Brien 
 Center for Public Integrity
 At least five and perhaps as many as eight of the nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court are millionaires according to recently released financial disclosures, and only two hold any consumer debt.
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Legislature asks Hallandale for answers about CRA spending; Subpoenas land at city hallBy William Gjebre 
 BrowardBulldog.org
 The Florida Legislature’s joint auditing committee is wading into Hallandale Beach’s questionable spending of local redevelopment funds, demanding that city officials explain the use and handling of those funds.
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/ 6073 SEEN/ Electric cars and the Department of Energy: Two giant loans, two different pathsBy Ronnie Greene 
 Center for Public Integrity
 They are two cutting-edge electric car makers, headquartered in California and backed by powerhouses of politics and money. In 2009, each secured half-billion dollar loan commitments from President Obama’s Department of Energy to help transform their clean-energy cars from drawing boards to showrooms. But this week, the fortunes of Tesla Motors and Fisker Automotive took sharply divergent turns.
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/ 5643 SEEN/ IRS nonprofit division overloaded, understaffed; 2012 banner year for nonprofit applicationsBy Dave Levinthal 
 Center for Public Integrity
 Amid withering accusations the Internal Revenue Service targeted tea party and other conservative groups with enhanced scrutiny, the agency faces another problem: it’s drowning in paperwork.
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