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Lead pandemic watchdog urges lawmakers to extend COVID anti-fraud tool to all federal spending

The chairman of the PRAC argues a big-data system set up to investigate pandemic fraud could help prevent improper payments across all federal spending.

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Federal watchdogs still uncovering full scope of fraud in $5T COVID-19 spending

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Senators seek ‘guardrails’ on expanded subpoena power for inspectors general

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House committee passes bill to prevent another Schedule F executive order from happening

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Top challenges for IGs with the new administration

Michael Horowitz and Allison Lerner discussed what the inspectors general community thinks of the top challenges for the federal government in the next year.

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(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)FILE - This March 27, 2020 file photo shows the signature of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act after it passed in the House on Capitol Hill in Washington. Since the pandemic began, Congress has set aside trillions of dollars to ease the crisis. A joint KHN and Associated Press investigation finds that many communities with big outbreaks have spent little of that federal money on local public health departments for work such as testing and contact tracing. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Congress approved CARES Act money, but how was it dished out?

How has the government done dispersing CARES Act money? Chairman of the Pandemic Relief Accountability Committee, Michael Horowitz, with highlights of…

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The American flag flies outside of the Justice Department building, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

DOJ investigators have mixed reviews of agency’s COVID-19 response, IG says

Employees within the Justice Department’s investigative subcomponents offered mixed reviews of their organizations’ responses to the COVID-19, according to a recent survey from the department’s inspector general.

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