Former U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspector general Phyllis Fong was not arrested after she was ousted from her role, a spokesperson for the USDA has said.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture responded on Wednesday to reports claiming the agency’s former inspector general was forcibly removed from her office after resisting her dismissal from the ...

WASHINGTON — Security agents escorted the inspector general of the US Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Security agents escorted the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the ...

US Rep. Jill Tokuda led 32 lawmakers in urging the US Department of Agriculture to re-hire terminated agricultural inspectors ...

A federal judge on Thursday said President Donald Trump's firing of eight independent agency watchdogs was likely illegal but ...

President Trump has fired several independent government watchdogs. They're now sharing warnings about what it could mean for federal oversight.

Last May, one inspector documented ''general filth'' in a room at the Indiana plant. The U.S. Agriculture Department released the inspection records in response to Freedom of Information Act ...

(USDA photo courtesy of Bailing Out Benji) The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s inspector general says the agency has failed to inspect dog breeders in a timely fashion and failed to ensure that ...

In December 2014, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued an audit that was highly critical of the department’s enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act (as ...