Recovery.gov: Phantom Districts are No More

The 440 phantom districts found on the government’s stimulus tracking web site have been replaced.
Recovery.gov has taken down all of the phantom districts–that is districts that received money without actually existing. The 12 phantom districts in Virginia, for example, have been consolidated into one category: unassigned congressional district. It appears that the administration, embarrassed by [...]

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WV Watchdog Discusses Phantom Districts

West Virginia Watchdog Managing Editor Steven Allen Adams discuss the phantom Congressional districts story with Rick Johnson and Michael Agnello on WCHS Radio 58 Nov. 17, 2009.

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Administration Responds to Web Errors that “Doubled Congress”

Responding to rash of errors in its tracking of the $787 billion stimulus package, the Obama Administration has mounted a defense of its $84 million web boondoggle.
Obama special adviser G. Edward DeSeve writes on the White House website that the errors are minor compared to the overall to the massive bill.
First, [...]

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Your Guide to the Stimulus, District by (Phantom) District

United States: 440 phantom districts
New Mexico Watchdog broke the story on Monday morning–the Obama Administration claimed to create jobs in congressional districts that did not exist. Those reporting errors, however, was not limited to New Mexico. A Watchdog study has found the stimulus has given $6.4 billion to 440 non-existent districts in all 50 states, D.C. [...]

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