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Date Issued

General Counsel

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2024-OE-0007-04

    Implement a plan to annually survey all HUD program offices to identify nondisclosure policies, forms, and agreements issued and to determine whether they include the anti-gag provision as required by WPEA and, as necessary, to take corrective action to ensure that they include the anti-gag provision.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2024-OE-0007-05

    Communicate across HUD that (a) HUD employees are required to include the anti-gag provision in nondisclosure policies, forms, and agreements applicable to HUD employees and (b) program offices should consider requiring their employees to request OGC assistance when implementing and enforcing nondisclosure policies, forms, and agreements applicable to HUD employees.

General Counsel

  •  
    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2020-KC-1001-001-G

    Take appropriate administrative action, up to and including debarment, against the owner for the violations cited in this report including, amongst others, failure to perform the required inspections to ensure that the units the owner were billing for assistance were decent, safe, and sanitary.

General Counsel

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2020-AT-1001-001-E

    Take appropriate enforcement actions against the responsible parties and pursue civil action against the owner for improperly certifying to the eligibility of the project residents.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2020-AT-1001-001-F

    Pursue administrative actions, as appropriate, against the responsible parties for the improper certification included in form HUD-50059 and the Section 8 project-based voucher housing assistance payments contract.

General Counsel

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2019-CF-1803-001-A
    $325,000
    Questioned Costs

    Recommendations with questioned costs identify costs: (A) resulting from an alleged violation of a law, regulation, contract, grant, or other document or agreement governing the use of Federal funds; (B) that are not supported by adequate documentation (also known as an unsupported cost); or (C) that appear unnecessary or unreasonable.

    Acknowledge that the attached settlement agreement of $325,000 represents an amount due HUD from Pacific Horizon.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2019-CF-1803-001-B
    $15,000
    Questioned Costs

    Recommendations with questioned costs identify costs: (A) resulting from an alleged violation of a law, regulation, contract, grant, or other document or agreement governing the use of Federal funds; (B) that are not supported by adequate documentation (also known as an unsupported cost); or (C) that appear unnecessary or unreasonable.

    Acknowledge that the attached settlement agreement for $15,000 represents an amount due HUD from the two loan officers.

General Counsel

  •  
    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2019-CF-1804-001-A
    $3,375,163
    Questioned Costs

    Recommendations with questioned costs identify costs: (A) resulting from an alleged violation of a law, regulation, contract, grant, or other document or agreement governing the use of Federal funds; (B) that are not supported by adequate documentation (also known as an unsupported cost); or (C) that appear unnecessary or unreasonable.

    Acknowledge that $3,375,163 in the attached settlement agreement represents an amount due HUD, less DOJ’s civil debt collection fees

  •  
    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2019-CF-1804-001-B
    $6,749,673
    Questioned Costs

    Recommendations with questioned costs identify costs: (A) resulting from an alleged violation of a law, regulation, contract, grant, or other document or agreement governing the use of Federal funds; (B) that are not supported by adequate documentation (also known as an unsupported cost); or (C) that appear unnecessary or unreasonable.

    Acknowledge that the $6,749,673 in the attached indemnification agreement represents an amount due HUD.

General Counsel

  •  
    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2019-CF-1805-001-A
    $32,500,000
    Questioned Costs

    Recommendations with questioned costs identify costs: (A) resulting from an alleged violation of a law, regulation, contract, grant, or other document or agreement governing the use of Federal funds; (B) that are not supported by adequate documentation (also known as an unsupported cost); or (C) that appear unnecessary or unreasonable.

    Acknowledge that $32,500,000 in the attached settlement agreement represents an amount due HUD, less DOJ’s civil debt collection fees.

General Counsel

  •  
    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2019-CF-1802-001-A
    $7,230,000
    Questioned Costs

    Recommendations with questioned costs identify costs: (A) resulting from an alleged violation of a law, regulation, contract, grant, or other document or agreement governing the use of Federal funds; (B) that are not supported by adequate documentation (also known as an unsupported cost); or (C) that appear unnecessary or unreasonable.

    Acknowledge that $7.23 million of the $14.5 million in the attached settlement agreement represents an amount due HUD, less DOJ’s civil debt collection fees.

General Counsel

  •  
    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2019-CF-1801-001-A
    $6,076,741
    Questioned Costs

    Recommendations with questioned costs identify costs: (A) resulting from an alleged violation of a law, regulation, contract, grant, or other document or agreement governing the use of Federal funds; (B) that are not supported by adequate documentation (also known as an unsupported cost); or (C) that appear unnecessary or unreasonable.

    Acknowledge that $6,076,741 of the $13,200,000 in the attached settlement agreement represents an amount due HUD, less DOJ’s civil debt collection fees.

General Counsel

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2018-NY-1006-001-E

    We also recommend that the Director of HUD’s Departmental Enforcement Center evaluate the apparent conflict-of-interest situations in this report and pursue administrative sanctions if warranted.

General Counsel

  •  
    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2018-PH-1007-002-D

    Evaluate the apparent conflict-of-interest situations in this report and pursue administrative sanctions if warranted.

General Counsel

  •  
    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2018-FO-1802-001-A
    $115,000,000
    Questioned Costs

    Recommendations with questioned costs identify costs: (A) resulting from an alleged violation of a law, regulation, contract, grant, or other document or agreement governing the use of Federal funds; (B) that are not supported by adequate documentation (also known as an unsupported cost); or (C) that appear unnecessary or unreasonable.

    Acknowledge the settlement amount of $149,500,000 and that $115,000,000 of the settlement represents restitution due HUD less DOJ’s civil debt collection fees.

General Counsel

  •  
    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2018-FW-1802-001-A
    $40,000
    Questioned Costs

    Recommendations with questioned costs identify costs: (A) resulting from an alleged violation of a law, regulation, contract, grant, or other document or agreement governing the use of Federal funds; (B) that are not supported by adequate documentation (also known as an unsupported cost); or (C) that appear unnecessary or unreasonable.

    We recommend that HUD’s Office of General Counsel, Office of Program Enforcement, acknowledge that the $40,000 in the settlement agreement represents an amount due HUD.

General Counsel

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2018-AT-1005-001-J

    Initiate appropriate administrative actions and debarments against parties, including the former grants manager and contractors, who contributed to the mismanagement of program funds.

General Counsel

  •  
    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2018-FW-1801-001-A
    $30,000
    Questioned Costs

    Recommendations with questioned costs identify costs: (A) resulting from an alleged violation of a law, regulation, contract, grant, or other document or agreement governing the use of Federal funds; (B) that are not supported by adequate documentation (also known as an unsupported cost); or (C) that appear unnecessary or unreasonable.

    We recommend that HUD’s Office of General Counsel, Office of Program Enforcement, acknowledge that $30,000 in the settlement agreement represents an amount due HUD.

General Counsel

  •  
    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2018-CF-1803-001-A
    $40,000
    Questioned Costs

    Recommendations with questioned costs identify costs: (A) resulting from an alleged violation of a law, regulation, contract, grant, or other document or agreement governing the use of Federal funds; (B) that are not supported by adequate documentation (also known as an unsupported cost); or (C) that appear unnecessary or unreasonable.

    Acknowledge that $40,000 in the attached settlement represents an amount due HUD.

General Counsel

  •  
    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2018-PH-1003-002-C

    Evaluate the apparent conflict-of-interest situation in this report and pursue administrative sanctions if warranted.