All posts tagged "Investigation"

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  US justice department strikes out election race ban on voter fraud probes

  Federal prosecutors at the US Department of Justice (DOJ) have been given the green light to publicly discuss investigations into voting fraud in the run-up to the US presidential election,

  • Posted October 13, 2020
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  Australia’s auditor general calls for more funding as number of investigations drop

  The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) – which conducted six fewer audits than its target this year, due to budget constraints – will be forced to further cut the number

  • Posted October 4, 2020
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  Union raises alarm over Scottish ministerial bullying complaints

  The FDA union, which represents high-ranking UK civil servants, says it has received “more complaints about bullying” by Scottish government ministers than across all other UK ministerial departments combined.  

  • Posted August 20, 2020
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  Two top US officials serving illegally, accountability office rules

  Two top-ranking homeland security officials are serving illegally, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has said. The GAO believes that flaws in the way successions were handled mean that the

  • Posted August 19, 2020
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  Four US State Department aides subpoenaed in investigation into watchdog firing

  House Democrats have subpoenaed four senior aides to secretary of state Mike Pompeo, accusing them of stonewalling an investigation into president Trump’s firing of State Department inspector general Steve Linick.

  • Posted August 5, 2020
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  OPM obstructive in politicised hiring probe, says investigator

  The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has repeatedly failed to comply with record requests during an investigation into the alleged politicisation of appointments, its inspector general has said. In a

  • Posted July 28, 2020
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  Inquiry pulls out lessons from Northern Ireland’s energy scheme scandal

  Northern Ireland’s Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme – whose botched handling led to the three-year collapse of the region’s administration – was a “project too far” for the NI Executive

  • Posted March 17, 2020
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  New Zealand’s top civil service agency told to apologise to former diplomat

  New Zealand’s guardian of administrative conduct has told the State Services Commission (SSC) to issue a public apology to former diplomat Derek Leask over the handling of a 2013 investigation

  • Posted June 24, 2016
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