Dina L. Rasor

Dina Rasor is the Chief Investigator of the Follow the Money Project and a partner in the Bauman & Rasor Group.

Ms. Rasor has over 25 years of experience in investigating and exposing defense procurement fraud. She trained as an investigative journalist and has worked for several media outlets such as ABC News and the San Francisco Examiner. For ten years Ms. Rasor directed the Washington, D.C. based Project on Military Procurement, a non-profit organization that she founded, in its work with whistleblowers and sources inside the Pentagon and the defense industry exposing fraud and waste.

Through a network of sources inside the Pentagon, the Project exposed many of the defense scandals written about in the 1980s, including failures in such major weapon systems as the M-1 tank, the B-1 bomber and the cruise missile. The Project also exposed overpricing and fraud in procurement systems, such as the infamous $7,600 coffee brewer and the $670 armrest in the C-5 cargo plane. Ms Rasor retains contact with her sources inside the defense industry, the federal government and the Congress.  The Project is now named the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) and Ms. Rasor serves as treasurer and on the board of directors.

Ms. Rasor authored The Pentagon Underground (1985), co-authored Betraying Our Troops: The Destructive Results of Privatizing War (2007)co-authored the whistleblower's manual Courage without Martyrdom: A Survival Guide for Whistleblowers, has written numerous news articles and guest editorials for national and regional newspapers on procurement waste and fraud as well as editing the book, More Bucks, Less Bang: How the Pentagon Buys Ineffective Weapons (1983).

Ms. Rasor has worked with countless whistleblowers and sources in promoting their cause in hundreds of newspaper articles and on many television shows, including Bill Moyers, CBS News, 60 Minutes II, all major news networks and CNN. She has assisted the Congress in procurement reform, including the establishment of an independent operational testing office in the Department of Defense and the 1986 amendment of the False Claims Act.  She has also worked with Congress and the press about the problems and fraud in the nursing home industry.

Ms. Rasor was placed on the 1986 Esquire Register (movers and shakers under 40) and in 1985 was listed in the National Journal as one of 150 people who make a difference. She has helped many whistleblowers and sources to expose fraud with the minimal amount of retaliation. Since leaving the Project in 1990, Ms. Rasor has been a consultant for news organizations and non-profit organizations.  In 1993, she founded the consulting group, The Bauman & Rasor Group, to work with whistleblowers on qui tam False Claims suits and consult for non-profit groups.  Currently, she is running the Follow The Money Project which is dedicated to making sure the soldiers have the equipment they need in Iraq and Afghanistan.  This project is following the money allocated for the war effort to make sure it is spent in the best interest of the troops on the battlefield. She is also the President and CEO of the Bauman & Rasor Group, a consulting group that specializes in qui tam Federal False Claim Act investigations with a specialty in defense spending.

Robert H. Bauman, CFE