Auditors Question $464,000 in Payments to Ex-Lawmaker
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A former Republican congresswoman was paid almost a half-million dollars by four U.S. Energy Department laboratories for work that government auditors were unable to verify was performed.
Heather Wilson and Company LLC received about $464,000 mostly from contractor-run Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories, the department’s Inspector General Gregory Friedman said today in the report. The contractors, which weren’t able to provide evidence of the firm’s work, have reimbursed the U.S. about $442,000, the report said.