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Local public employees paid to stay home
The Dayton Daily News contacted local governments and found varying levels of tracking of employees placed on paid administrative leave. Greene County, for example, keeps no centralized record of employees placed on administrative leave. The Daily News reviewed records to find out who was being paid to stay home since ...
Gov Watch: Park officers just didn’t have time to take criminal to jail
Park officers in northeast Ohio gave a new meaning to “catch and release” when after picking up a man on a felony warrant they dropped him off on a street corner in Cleveland because they didn’t have time to book him at jail. This is according to an investigation released ...
NFL, other pro sports leagues are technically nonprofits
When you think back over that $4 million, 30-second halftime spot you chuckled at during Sunday’s Super Bowl or sit down this weekend to see which golfer takes home $1.15 million for winning the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, ponder this: The National Football League, just like the PGA Tour, ...
Large-capacity magazines, not assault weapons, more of a problem on Dayton streets
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office has investigated more homicides involving frying pans in the past three years than firearms labeled as “assault weapons” in proposed federal gun bans. Of the 27 homicides in Dayton last year, handguns were the preferred murder weapon — one case involved an assault rifle — ...
Tough talk in D.C., but guns still easy to buy in Ohio
You can buy the same model of gun used in the Sandy Hook shooting out of the trunk of a car in Dayton for $1,500 cash, no paperwork required. A different model of semi-automatic rifle can be bought without a background check for $450.These bargains were offered to a reporter ...
At the gun show: High prices and demand
Within 20 minutes of paying $8 to enter Bill Goodman’s Gun and Knife show at the Vandalia Aiport Expo Center earlier this month, I was offered an SKS semi-automatic rifle with a 30-round magazine for $450, no background check required.The seller, who didn’t give his name, said he had the ...
Cutting ‘bad debt’ payment to hospitals could save billions
Hospitals aren’t leaning hard enough on Medicare beneficiaries to pay their share of medical costs, according to a recent report. It suggests reducing what the government pays to cover such bad debt, which could pressure hospitals to bill more aggressively. This approach could save Medicare nearly $36 billion in the ...
State auditor: Miami Twp. overpaid in salaries
Missing money and the over-payment of township elected officials were called out in a state audit of Miami Twp. in Greene County.The report, released Tuesday, ordered $11,624 be repaid to the township by the fiscal officer and trustees.“Watch the cash, watch the law,” Auditor of State Dave Yost said. “If ...
Medicare fraudsters used UPS boxes to fleece millions from taxpayers
It took a call from the Dayton Daily News for Dr. William Carey to learn that he was CEO of a Columbus medical practice he had no idea even existed. Clues contained in a database of medical providers maintained by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services pointed toward Carey ...
International crime ring stole millions from Medicare
An elaborate, international health-care fraud ring that stole millions from taxpayers started to come unraveled when an Ohio gynecologist called investigators after receiving insurance payments for male patients. Ultimately, two California men went to federal prison in May as purported ringleaders of the operation, but not before making off with ...
VA Medical Center project stalled, workers say they weren’t paid
The future of a $12.5 million renovation project at the Dayton VA Medical Center is uncertain as the primary contractor is accused of not paying subcontractors, and a company construction manager faces possible prison time for bribing a federal official elsewhere in Ohio. John Hurt, owner of The Aspire Group ...
Waste in 2012 included GSA antics, food stamps for dead people
The past 12 months have been a dangerous time to be a government coffer. As 2012 wraps to a close, the I-Team decided to look back on some of the year’s biggest stories of waste, fraud or abuse of public funds. Maybe we’ll hold an awards gala; we could call ...
List of items in question by detectives
Gifts or not? Detectives with the Miami County Sheriff’s Office questioned the items listed below, which were purchased by Waibel Energy Systems. Detectives suspected they were illegal gifts, while company officials denied wrongdoing. 1. A $2,000, 70-inch flat screen television. The TV ended up in the home of former county ...
Detectives scrutinize local vendor, political connections
A politically-connected Vandalia company doled out thousands of dollars in gifts to Miami County employees while securing millions of dollars in no-bid public contracts, according to a sheriff’s office report. Miami County Sheriff’s Lt. Steve Lord called that sequence “unsettling” in a written summary of his investigation contained within a ...
Report: State board overstaffed, overpaid, inefficient
The Ohio agency that handles unemployment compensation appeals can save $1 million annually by cutting staff and pay scales for employees, according to an interim audit report issued by the Ohio Auditor of State this week. This would make the office more efficient, according to auditors, but it still would ...
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 ...
IRS says tax fraud attempts up 39 percent
Attempted federal income tax fraud has shot up 39 percent in the 2012 tax filing season compared to the same time period in 2011, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.And while the IRS is catching more attempted fraud than ever before, that effort is slowing refunds for ...
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