The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, which has been the main target of efforts to
fire feds faster, dismissed more than 500 employees this year — even before a new accountability law took effect.
Not exact matches
Still, the Silk Road
fire sale exposed the
feds to ridicule from cryptocurrency devotees — and in an era of strained budgets, the pressure to sell high is great.
NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye had earlier come under
fire for blowing off mandatory lead paint inspections, then lying to the
feds about it.
In one of its final acts, the Bloomberg administration pushed through a costly contract to modernize the city's 311 call system — hiring the same company
fired by the
feds for the botched rollout of the Obamacare website.
The
firing of Bharara as Manhattan US attorney leaves the
feds with a number of major pending cases, including:
The
feds folded the probe last week, just days after President Donald Trump
fired U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who had spearheaded the Justice Department's anti-corruption efforts in New York City and State.