Oregon state agencies have wasted hundreds of millions of dollars under Governor Brown’s watch, from $300 million on a Cover Oregon website that never worked to nearly $300 million in Medicare payments to ineligible patients. How much of Oregon’s hardworking taxpayer dollars will she allow to be wasted before she intervenes?
The Oregon Office of Emergency Management misspent $3 million in federal grants, triggering and audit and leaving the agency in the red. Emergency Management illegally used federal dollar to pay for salaries and rent without permission from the federal government.
After wasting $300 million on the failed Cover Oregon website - and getting only $100 million back from Oracle, the software company that engineered the project - Oregon now owes another $1.3 million in a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by…
The Oregon Department of Energy was recently caught improperly collecting taxes from utilities and now much repay millions of dollars. Who really loses? Oregon families who can’t afford higher electricity bills or higher taxes.
Three years and $200,000 later, Oregon’s so-called “waste hotline,” which Oregonians can use to report government fraud, abuse and wasteful spending, and not one incidence of waste has been reported. Despite a growing number of complaints, the waste hotline has…