Investigative Journalism & In-Depth Reporting
An Investigative Journal accountability digest. Records suggest the federal oversight community is operating at reduced capacity even as new fraud findings, whistleblower disclosures, and qui tam recoveries continue to pile…
GAO reports federal improper payments hit $186B in FY2025, VA acquisition reorganization under scrutiny, ProPublica details a quashed Puerto Rico vote-fraud probe, and the FBI surfaces 1.9M pages from a…
Senate appropriators open FY2027 defense hearings as a 2B border reconciliation tranche awaits conference, the House clears the 2026 Farm Bill, and AI energy and privacy bills proliferate amid a…
OCCRP's Worldclear Files expose a NZ payment shop moving money for a Belarusian oligarch; EU adopts 20th Russia sanctions package; DOJ secures second PEMEX bribery plea; SFO inks £15M Ultra…
Treasury, State, and DOJ moved in parallel this week: GAESA hit the SDN List under E.O. 14404, Economic Fury targeted Iran's shadow banking and a Chinese oil terminal, and the…
A federal indictment of the SPLC, a $6.5M state civil case in Minneapolis, and a stubborn IRS enforcement gap on 501(c)(4) political nonprofits.
Federal agencies booked $186 billion in improper payments in FY 2025, GAO finds, even as the Pentagon, DOE, and FEMA close out multi-billion-dollar contract and grant cycles.
A weekly survey of consequential court action: the Supreme Court keeps the mifepristone telehealth stay alive, the Court of International Trade voids the administration's replacement global tariffs, the D.C. Circuit…
TIJ's weekly survey of newly released federal audits, IG findings, and state and municipal records — including the Pentagon's PURSUE UAP portal, new GAO IT deficiencies at the IRS, and…
Defense Secretary Hegseth and Gen. Caine faced House appropriators on the FY2027 Pentagon budget and Iran operations. Senate Armed Services examined Army posture; Oversight set a Pentagon-audit hearing; CBO updated…