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Two Republican lawmakers, seizing on newly surfaced Defense Department emails, are calling for hearings on Amazonâs efforts to win a cloud-computing contract for the U.S. military worth as much as $10 billion.
The emails, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by a former Pentagon inspector general who had also advised Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, are related to a series of meetings then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis held with executives from several tech companies, including Amazon, in August 2017. They show that Sally Donnelly, who had been a paid consultant for Amazon before joining the Pentagon as a senior adviser earlier that year, encouraged other officials to set up a meeting between Mattis and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (who owns The Washington Post).
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Metro Transit Police can’t demonstrate that officers investigated thousands of reported robberies, assaults, sex offenses and property crimes over a span of several years, according to the agency’s internal watchdog.
In the case of 1,200 reported crimes, “investigative case files lacked any documentation of investigative activity,” according to a report released Thursday by the agency’s Office of Inspector General. More than 1,600 other case files were missing or withheld from the inspector general, according to the report.
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Watchdog: 2 Trump EPA appointees defrauded agency of $130K
The two submitted fraudulent timesheets, paying some employees after they d been fired, or when they were away from work. Author: MATTHEW DALY Associated Press Published: 3:27 PM CDT July 9, 2021 Updated: 3:27 PM CDT July 9, 2021
WASHINGTON
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Two high-ranking Trump political appointees at the Environmental Protection Agency engaged in fraudulent payroll activities including payments to employees after they were fired and to one of the officials when he was absent from work that cost the agency more than $130,000, a report by an internal watchdog says.
Former chief of staff Ryan Jackson and former White House liaison Charles Munoz submitted “official timesheets and personnel forms that contained materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements to mislead EPA personnel and facilitate improper payments over multiple mon
Watchdog: 2 Trump EPA appointees defrauded agency of $130K
MATTHEW DALY
July 9, 2021, 4:59 PM
FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2017, file photo, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building is shown in Washington. Two high-ranking Trump political appointees at the EPA engaged in fraudulent payroll activities, including payments to employees after they were fired and to one of the officials when he was absent from work, that cost the agency more than $130,000, a report by an internal watchdog says. Former chief of staff Ryan Jackson and former White House liaison Charles Munoz submitted “official timesheets and personnel forms that contained materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements to mislead EPA personnel and facilitate improper payments over multiple months, according to a report by EPA’s Office of Inspector General. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)