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Jury box, courtroom. Photo credit: Crazy City Lady via Shutterstock. *FILE*

Ex-Office of Personnel Management employee pleads guilty to giving contracts to husband’s companies

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about his student debt relief plan at Central New Mexico Community College, Nov. 3, 2022, in Albuquerque, N.M. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Biden seeks to purge Conservatives from federal jobs

By Adrian Norman

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., speaks with Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., before a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the nomination of Chris Magnus to be the next U.S. Customs and Border Protection commissioner, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Senators press Biden official after senior hires with alleged sexual misconduct history

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Kiran Ahuja, the nominee to be Office of Personnel Management Director, appears before a Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hybrid nominations hearing on Capitol Hill, Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Kiran Ahuja, racial justice activist, set to run OPM with likely Senate confirmation

By James Varney - The Washington Times

Trump replaces director of Office of Personnel Management

By JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

Leandra English, who was elevated to interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by its outgoing director, meets with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., to discuss the fight for control of the U.S. consumer watchdog's fate after President Donald Trump chose White House budget director Mick Mulvaney for the same post, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Nov. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Ron Johnson demands answers on how Leandra English got job at CFPB

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Former President Barack Obama speaks during the Goalkeepers Conference hosted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

78 Obama appointees ‘burrowed’ into career jobs, watchdog finds

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management is photographed Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016, in Washington. It was time to purge the hacker from the U.S. government’s computers. After secretly monitoring the hacker's online movements for months, officials worried he was getting too close to critical information and devised a plan to expel him. Trouble was, with all their attention focused in that case, they missed the other hacker entirely. A new congressional report provides previously undisclosed details and a behind-the-scenes chronology of one of the worst-ever cyberattacks on the United States, laying out missed opportunities before the break-in at the OPM exposed security clearances, background checks and fingerprint records. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Govt. workers plan to appeal after judge tosses OPM data breach lawsuit

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Chinese hacking against U.S. entities has declined significantly since the theft of some 22 million federal records from the Office of Personnel Management, according to a report from cybersecurity firm FireEye. (Associated Press/File)

Trump administration lawyers say class-action plaintiffs can’t prove data breach caused injury

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management is photographed Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016, in Washington. It was time to purge the hacker from the U.S. government’s computers. After secretly monitoring the hacker's online movements for months, officials worried he was getting too close to critical information and devised a plan to expel him. Trouble was, with all their attention focused in that case, they missed the other hacker entirely. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Report details missed opportunities to stop OPM cyber breach

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Journalists are reflected on the tombstone of Chile's Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda after he was reburied at his home, now a museum, on Isla Negra, Chile, Tuesday, April 26, 2016. Neruda's body was exhumed in 2013 for a fourth time in an effort to clear up four decades of suspicion about how the poet died in the days after Chile's military coup. The results of the analysis will be delivered on May 5. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Government paid out benefits to deceased Americans

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

David Vitter (Associated Press/File)

David Vitter files bill to zero out Obamacare ‘exemption,’ maintains hold on nominee

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Beth Cobert

House Oversight Committee endorses Obama’s pick for OPM chief

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this June 24, 2015, file photo, Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Chief Information Officer Donna K. Seymour testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Seymour has resigned days before a congressional oversight committee hearing on the breach. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

OPM cyber chief resigns ahead of data breach hearing

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Sen. David Vitter, Louisiana Republican (Associated Press) **FILE**

Tax forms pose new wrinkle in Congress’s ‘Obamacare exemption’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, a California Republican whose panel has been investigating the OPM hack, said the changes didn't give him much comfort that things have changed on the ground. (Associated Press)

Government background checks still don’t require review of social media profiles

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (Associated Press)

Eleanor Holmes Norton, D.C. delegate, seeks more protection for federal workers in OPM breach

By Ryan M. McDermott - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2011 file photo, American and Chinese flags fly along Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington. The Justice Department’s indictment last week of five Chinese military officials charged them with trying to pilfer confidential information from American companies. But even some of the alleged U.S. corporate victims of the hackers have little incentive to cheer any trade rupture with China. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

China arrests alleged OPM hackers, claims breach was criminal, not state-sponsored

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

President Obama speaks during a Organizing for Action event in Washington. Six years ago, the Obama administration set the ambitious goal of ending veteran homelessness in 2015 and ending the backlog in disability claims. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Beth Cobert nominated to head personnel agency hacked by Chinese

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

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Three-fourths of federal workers hit by hackers wait for OPM notification

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times