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    Adam Andrzejewski

    Subscriber Special - $24.2 Billion Bad Loan Portfolio at SBA

    Sep 07, 2016

    Playing the 'Big Six Wheel' in Las Vegas has better odds than large tranches of the...

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    Truth In Lending: The U.S. Small Business Administration’s $24.2 Billion Bad Loan Portfolio | Open The Books Oversight Report

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    Winter Park/Maitland Observer: VA Bungles Solar Projects

    Sep 01, 2016

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    Adam Andrzejewski

    Subscriber Special - The Illinois Favor Factory

    Sep 01, 2016

    In Illinois, the politically connected are paid first. The folks with real needs...

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    NBC: 'We deserve to see every dime': Man's public records request will cost nearly $24,000

    Aug 30, 2016

    Adam Andrzejewski works for openthebooks.com. He’s asking for public employee and...

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    Chillicothe Gazette, USA Today: Chillicothe included in VA spending attack

    Aug 26, 2016

    Officials with Chillicothe's VA Medical Center are defending a 2011 purchase of a...

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    Washington Examiner: Keep art in galleries, not government offices

    Aug 26, 2016

    What do a $1.2 million decorative rock in Palo Alto, a $185,000 pile of thread balls...

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    The Daily Caller: EPA Withheld Key Info On Post-Spill Funding To Gold King Mine Culprit

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    American Thinker: The Enemy Is Us

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    Daily Record, USA Today Network: Too Many Guns a Threat to our Rights

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    The Hill: GOP rep, vets groups slam VA art purchases

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    Sentinel & Enterprise Columnists: VA's frivolous expenditures not a pretty picture

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    CVA: Va Art Spending: A Case Of Misplaced Priorities

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    Small Business Administrations $24.2B Bad Loan Portfolio

    Aug 17, 2016

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    American Clarion: On Our Knees for America While Domestic Government Agencies Increase Their Arms

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    Newsmax - Daily Caller: Obama Administration Has $25M Secret in Environmental Lawsuits

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