I-Team: Watching Your Tax Dollars
OIG: Companies rigged bids while ODOT employees looked on
An area company and a sales manager of one of the company’s affiliates pleaded guilty in a statewide bid-rigging scheme involving millions of dollars in contracts from the Ohio Department of Transportation. A&A Safety Inc., with offices in Beavercreek, was one of five companies named in a report released Tuesday ...
Health and Human Services identifies billions in potenial savings
Just in time for Christmas, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this month released its annual “Compendium of Unimplemented Recommendations.” Get yours now on the HHS web site, free, minus the cost of printing 180 pages and the hours you’ll never get back trying to read it. Maybe ...
Charter schools pay off for CEO’s family
A Dayton Daily News investigation found that a company managing several taxpayer-funded charter schools in the area is a lucrative family business whose husband-and-wife management team makes more than $400,000 a year.The nonprofit, EdVantages, manages seven charter schools in Ohio, including schools in Trotwood, Middletown and Springfield. By law, these ...
State spends more by using middlemen on public projects
Laws requiring state agencies to award a percentage of their contracts to minority-owned and disadvantaged companies have created a cottage industry of middlemen who essentially rent their status to larger firms for a cut of the profit on public contracts. The practice isn’t illegal. It isn’t even uncommon. And sometimes ...
Preble County employees fired for putting public money in ‘pop fund’
Three Preble County employees were fired and the director of the county landfill resigned after an internal investigation found they were taking cash from people dumping trash and dropping it into a “pop fund” coffee can under the counter. The money was then used for office parties.Investigative records, obtained by ...
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