“The administration is cracking down on all the ways that companies—through paperwork, hold times and general aggravation—waste people’s money, waste people’s time,” a White House official said. The Biden administration on Monday launched a wide-ranging consumer protection campaign called “Time Is Money” aimed at cracking down on hard-to-cancel services, deliberately poor customer service, and other […]
Amazon, which has reported $10.3 billion in recent federal contracts, paid CEO Andy Jassy 6,474 times more than it paid its median worker last year. As ordinary workers across the United States watched inflation eat away at modest wage gains in 2021, many corporations—including firms contracting with the federal government—used record-shattering profits to lavish their CEOs […]
Fairbanks, Alaska – Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Wilson announced that Ryan Dalbec, 42, Raihana Nadem, a/k/a/ Raihana Dalbec, 27, of Virginia, and Brian Lowell Nash II, 30, of Washington, have been charged in a 26 count indictment with conspiracy, bribery, and money laundering involving millions of dollars’ worth of U.S. military contracts in Alaska. According […]
The Department of Justice announced on Thursday the arrest of two men, one a VA contract officer, the other the owner/manager of Veteran Ability LLC, on charges laid out in a 31 count indictment handed down by a grand jury. The arrests stem from wire fraud and bribery investigations carried out by the FBI, United […]