11:28 PM, Mar 25, 2013
America's five top U.S. House leaders are racking up a tab of about $10,000 a month in snacks, bottled water and coffee breaks.
10:02 PM, Mar 18, 2013
The White House's $277,000 calligraphy staff probe has created a lot of strong opinions and questions and we answer them.
12:32 AM, Dec 18, 2012
How many government mechanics does it take to install a drip pan? As
Russ Ptacek reports, you the taxpayer are paying about $17,000 a drip
pan, which critics say is about six times as much as it should cost.
12:39 AM, Dec 11, 2012
Whose drones are those in the sky? Russ Ptacek has the answer.
12:21 AM, Dec 8, 2012
A building that turned out to be too small for the job is costing taxpayers millions in wasted dollars.
12:31 AM, Dec 5, 2012
Flexibility in spending your tax dollars? What about grants to pay for a pumpkin festival and a sno-cone machine?
12:29 AM, Dec 4, 2012
Government contracts awarded without companies competing in the bidding process? Russ Ptacek reports.
12:21 AM, Dec 1, 2012
While debating spending cuts and tax hikes, Congress to spend $550
million on Capitol Architect project to refurbish century-old Cannon
Office building
11:25 PM, Nov 2, 2012
Administration cites $11.1 million fraud figure, but review of audits finds $5.8 billion of problems -- and still growing
11:29 PM, Sep 14, 2012
Maryland Public Service Commission hearings this week into the eight day
derecho power outage indicated Pepco and BGE would need to rebuild
electrical grids to restore services more than a day or two faster.
11:30 PM, Sep 12, 2012
Whether it was mystery illnesses at a regional headquarters, the
controversial quarter-million dollar PR contract to deal with my
investigation there, or the $30 million in unreported bonuses at the
General Services Administration, the Acting Administrator remained on
point and not defensive during an unscheduled one-on-one interview
Monday.
10:51 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Maryland regulators say Pepco is charging for disconnected customers
without labeling the bills and that this weekend's storm again qualifies
the utility to ask blacked-out consumers to pay up for power services
they didn't get.
11:40 AM, Aug 10, 2012
The same regulatory board that approved BGE and Pepco billing customers for lost revenue during storm outages is now considering reversing itself in the wake of a 9 Wants to Know probe.
8:26 PM, Aug 8, 2012
After identifying $30 million in unreported 2011 overtime GSA bonuses
and $8 million in overtime, 9 Wants to Know is publishing the entire
database online to continue combing through the 13,710 payroll records
by crowdsourcing.
7:21 PM, Aug 8, 2012
A Montgomery County State Senator is using the casino special session to
introduce a bill outlawing Pepco and BGE from billing customers for
lost outage profits.
6:43 PM, Aug 7, 2012
A WUSA9 top ten list of GSA earnings shows some workers earning paychecks
larger than the vice president and an electrician supervisor earning
more than the highest paid members of Congress.
10:28 AM, Aug 7, 2012
Want to know which 10 GSA workers get the most overtime pay? We have listed the positions of the top 10 people paid the most in overtime.
11:37 PM, Aug 3, 2012
A 9 Wants to Know inquiry into suspicions that the General Services
Administration booked luxury suites and a party cruise has not found
evidence to support the questions raised in Congress.
5:53 PM, Aug 2, 2012
A GSA official testifying before a Congressional probe into
$30 million bonus dollars exposed by WUSA9 said she couldn't answer
questions about bonuses.
11:54 PM, Jul 31, 2012
A 9 News
Now investigation has found $30 million in unreported bonuses
for fiscal year 2011 - making the already troubled General Services
Administration's total bonus pool nearly $44 million.
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