Robert Storch, who has had a long and successful federal career, is speaking out after President Donald Trump let him go in a purge of IGs governmentwide.

WASHINGTON — Robert Storch, the inspector general at the Defense Department, was among more than a dozen IGs at federal agencies fired by President Donald Trump “It’s a very common thing to ...

A pair of Senate Democrats slammed President Trump’s firing of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) ...

If an independent oversight professional can be summarily fired for doing his or her job, there will be a permanent chilling ...

On October 12, 1978, Congress passed the Inspector General Act, which established twelve Federal Offices of Inspector General tasked with rooting out fraud and waste and providing non-partisan ...

the Treasury’s deputy inspector general, wrote in a letter. “We expect to begin our fieldwork immediately,” Sciburba wrote. “Given the breadth of this effort, the audit will likely not be ...

the VA is the federal government’s second-largest department after the Defense Department. An inspector general conducts investigations and audits into potential malfeasance, fraud, waste or ...

To fire IGs, in other words, is to open the door to abuses. (The inspector general at the U.S. Department of Agriculture was, among other things, investigating an Elon Musk startup. When she ...

A former inspector general (IG) who was dismissed on Friday ... Trump dismissed IGs at agencies within the Defense Department, State Department, Energy Department, Department of Housing and ...

On Tuesday, the advocacy group New Orleans United Front demanded transparency and accountability after accusing New Orleans Inspector General Ed ... when the head of the department asked for ...

(The Hill) — President Trump’s White House fired the inspector ... least 17 inspectors general, including those who worked in the State Department, Energy Department, Defense Department ...