San Jose State Foundation Filed Fraudulent Tax Returns

By   /  March 22, 2012  /  Education, Fraud, News  /  No Comments

A California State University foundation has filed fraudulent tax returns for three consecutive years, potentially jeopardizing the organization’s tax-exempt status, with the potential of criminal penalties for several university personnel, a CalWatchDog.com investigation has found.

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Acting police chief busted, additional charges filed against new NM mayor

By   /  March 20, 2012  /  Ethics, Fraud, News  /  No Comments

SUNLAND PARK — Sunland Park may be taking New Mexico to a place state government has never gone before … and that’s not a good thing.

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NM candidate charged with extortion wins mayor’s race in Sunland Park

By   /  March 7, 2012  /  Accountability, Elections, Fraud, News, Politics & Elections  /  No Comments

SANTA FE — One of the weirdest elections in the country was held in the little border town of Sunland Park on Tuesday (March 6) as a mayoral candidate who is facing charges of extortion defeated a rival who received a lapdance from a topless woman in his campaign office days before voters went to the polls.

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Small-city fraud increases 350 percent in Iowa

By   /  March 1, 2012  /  Ethics, Featured, News, Power Abuse  /  No Comments

By Lynn Campbell  |  IowaPolitics.com
DES MOINES — Faced with the temptation of handling thousands of dollars, an increasing number of city clerks in small-town Iowa have used taxpayer money to buy whiskey and beer, laptop computers, gas grills, pumpkin pies, cat litter and even self-improvement books.

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Two former HISD administrators indicted, charged with doctoring dropout-rate docs

By   /  February 27, 2012  /  Accountability, Education, Ethics, Featured, News, Power Abuse  /  No Comments

By Mike Cronin | Texas Watchdog

HOUSTON – A Harris County grand jury today indicted two former Houston school system administrators on felony charges in connection with accusations that they altered school records to falsely lower reported dropout rates, the local prosecutor said.

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