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David Kerley, Jennifer Abbey, and Betsy Klein contributed to this report: Long before cameras were invented, our founding fathers kept their images alive with painted portraits. Paintings of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson are part of American history. But what began as official documentation… Tweet This Post
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Taxpayer Dollars Spent on Official Government Portraits
Posted by admin on March 5th, 2013
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No Comments »Mark Sanford: I didn’t spend a DIME of taxpayer money on the Appalachian Trail!
Posted by admin on February 19th, 2013
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Posted in Breaking News Tags: Appalachian, didn't, dime., mark, Money, Sanford, spend, taxpayer, Trail No Comments »Audit of U.S. FHA could point the way to taxpayer bailout
Posted by admin on November 13th, 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Housing Administration, weighed down by losses on souring loans, will release a report on its finances later this week that could point up the possibility it may require taxpayer aid for the first time in its 78-year history. The annual analysis, overseen by an independent auditor, will calculate the [...]
Taxpayer data exposed in cyber attack on South Carolina agency
Posted by admin on October 27th, 2012
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) – As many as 3.6 million Social Security numbers and 387,000 credit and debit card numbers used by state taxpayers could have been exposed to a hacker in recent cyber attacks on the state Department of Revenue’s computers, officials said on Friday. The vast majority of the credit card numbers used [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Agency, Attack, Carolina, Cyber, data, Exposed, South, taxpayer No Comments »Sweden says no taxpayer money for bailouts under banking union
Posted by admin on October 15th, 2012
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden said on Monday it wanted to make sure its tax payers would not end up paying for foreign bank bailouts under any European banking union and that it was allowed to set higher capital demands on its banks than others. Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, who will discuss the banking union issue [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: bailouts, Banking, Money, says, Sweden, taxpayer, Under, union No Comments »If ‘economic dependency’ means taxpayer supported, Allen West is Exhibit A
Posted by admin on July 19th, 2012
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Posted in Breaking News Tags: Allen, dependency', Economic, exhibit, means, supported, taxpayer, West No Comments »Sheriff Joe Arpaio now using taxpayer funds for his ‘birther’ investigation
Posted by admin on May 23rd, 2012
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Posted in Breaking News Tags: Arpaio, birther, Funds, Investigation, Sheriff, taxpayer, using No Comments »Sheriff Joe Arpaio contemplating taxpayer funds to continue birth certificate ’investigation’?
Posted by admin on March 2nd, 2012
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Posted in Breaking News Tags: Arpaio, Birth, certificate 'investigation', contemplating, continue, Funds, Sheriff, taxpayer No Comments »Big oil companies make huge profits with taxpayer support but cut jobs anyway
Posted by admin on September 9th, 2011
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Posted in Breaking News Tags: companies, Huge, jobs anyway, profits, support, taxpayer No Comments »Bachmann Used Taxpayer Money for Political Rally
Posted by admin on June 20th, 2011
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and three conservative GOP colleagues — Reps. Tom Price (R-GA), Steve King (R-IA) and Todd Akin (R-MO) — each paid $ 3,407.50 from taxpayer-funded office accounts — a total of $ 13,630 — to a sound and stage company for a Tea Party rally outside the U.S. Capitol, Roll Call reports. [...]
