Management Alert: HUD Should Take Additional Steps to Protect Contractor Employees Who Disclose Wrongdoing
The OIG has learned that employees of thousands of contractors who receive funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) are not protected against retaliation for blowing the whistle on wrongdoing. The gap in protections exists because (1) the contracts pre-date July 1 Read More
Mayo 31, 2023
Management Alert
#2023-IG-0002
Management Alert: Action Needed to Ensure That Assisted Property Owners, Including Public Housing Agencies, Comply with the Lead Safe Housing Rule
While conducting an ongoing audit of the Philadelphia Housing Authority’s (Authority) management of lead-based paint hazards in its public housing units, we identified a significant gap in HUD’s program requirements related to safe work practices, which we believe requires immediate action by HUD. Read More
Octubre 04, 2022
Management Alert
#2023-IG-0001
Kissimmee Real Estate Broker Pleads Guilty To Committing Bank Fraud
Orlando, FL –United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Maria Del Carmen Montes (46, Kissimmee) has pleaded guilty to three counts of bank fraud. Each bank fraud count carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison. Montes was indicted, along with coconspirator Carlos Ferrer, Read More
Enero 05, 2024
News
Press Release
HUD's Efforts to Advance Homeownership Through Housing Counseling
HUD OIG is auditing HUD’s Office of Housing Counseling. HUD’s 2022-2026 Strategic Plan identified housing counseling as one of the strategies it would employ to achieve its strategic objective to advance sustainable homeownership. Our objective is to assess HUD’s processes for achieving its goal Read More
Enero 01, 2024
Work Start Notification
#NY 24 0001
Cumberland Woman Sentenced To Prison For Embezzling Funds From St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin
MADISON, WIS. – Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Karen Johnson, 55, Cumberland, Wisconsin was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to one year and one day in prison for wire fraud, to be followed by a three-year Read More
Enero 04, 2024
News
Press Release
HUD Personal Identifiable Information Risk Management in a Zero Trust Environment
HUD OIG is performing this evaluation to assess HUD’s capability to meet privacy and data protection requirements and provide appropriate stakeholders with an understanding of any related potential risks to HUD’s data and the operational mission. The evaluation will also provide HUD an independent Read More
Enero 01, 2024
Work Start Notification
#2023-OE-0007
Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA) Evaluation
HUD OIG is conducting the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 evaluation of the HUD's information security program and practices, as required by the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA). The objectives are to (1) assess the maturity level of HUD’s InfoSec program and practices based on Read More
Diciembre 01, 2023
Work Start Notification
#2024-OE-0002
Fiscal Year 2023 Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 Penetration Test Evaluation Report
We have completed our fiscal year (FY) 2023 Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA) penetration test and vulnerability assessment. The objective of this evaluation was to test and verify the technical implementation of a limited set of security controls on judgmentally Read More
Diciembre 20, 2023
Report
#2023-OE-0001a
Requirements Documentation in HUD’s Acquisition Process
The Office of Evaluation is initiating an evaluation of requirements documentation in HUD’s acquisition process. Our objective is to assess HUD’s processes for developing and approving requirements documents in the pre-award phase of the acquisition life cycle.
Diciembre 01, 2023
Work Start Notification
#2023-OE-0006
Opportunities Exist To Improve HUD’s FHA Resource Center’s Routing of Housing Discrimination Inquiries
We audited the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Single Family Housing’s Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Resource Center’s handling of housing discrimination inquiries. We initiated the audit to assist HUD with ensuring that the FHA Resource Center (1) Read More
Diciembre 18, 2023
Report
#2024-BO-0001
Yolo County Insurance Broker Pleads Guilty to Identity Theft
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Robert Kirby Wells, 64, of Woodland, pleaded guilty today to one count of aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.According to court documents, Wells served as an insurance broker for a company located in Denver, Colorado, that owned multifamily Read More
Diciembre 18, 2023
News
Press Release
CPD Could Improve the Timing of Delivery of Disaster Recovery Funding
From 2001 to 2022, the Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery program provided almost $98 billion to states, cities, counties, and territories to help them recover from disasters. Administering disaster recovery has been a recurring U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Read More
Diciembre 15, 2023
Report
#2024-FW-0002
Former Cook County Land Bank Authority Employee Sentenced to a Year in Federal Prison for Scheming To Fraudulently Purchase and Resell Properties
CHICAGO — A former employee of the Cook County Land Bank Authority (CCLBA) has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for using “straw buyers” to fraudulently purchase and resell properties from the agency on his behalf.MUSTAFAA SALEH, 37, of Chicago, pleaded guilty earlier this year to a wire Read More
Diciembre 18, 2023
News
Press Release
U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan and HUD Inspector General Rae Oliver Davis Host a safe housing summit focused on health and safety in HUD-assisted housing
ATLANTA – U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Inspector General Rae Oliver Davis hosted a Safe Housing Summit on December 14, 2023, to promote health and safety for tenants living in HUD-assisted housing.“Our office is determined to address Read More
Diciembre 18, 2023
News
Press Release
State of New York - Disaster Procurement
HUD OIG is auditing a State of New York Hurricane Sandy CDBG-DR grant, which totaled $4.4 billion, and was appropriated by Congress in Public Law 113-2. Our audit objective is to determine whether the grantee conducted its Hurricane Sandy funded 2017 through 2023 disaster recovery procurements Read More
Diciembre 01, 2023
Work Start Notification
#FW 24 0002
Preventing Duplication of Benefits When Using Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery and Mitigation Funds
We recommend that the Director, Office of Disaster Recovery, perform monitoring of or otherwise review grantees’ detailed procedures for preventing duplication of benefits for each grant activity within the first year after HUD signs the grant agreement or before grantees process applications for Read More
Open Recommendation
Preventing Duplication of Benefits When Using Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery and Mitigation Funds
We recommend that the Director, Office of Disaster Recovery, develop and implement a process to review grantees’ detailed procedures for preventing duplication of benefits and require grantees to correct any deficiencies identified in the review before grantees process applications for assistance.
Open Recommendation
Preventing Duplication of Benefits When Using Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery and Mitigation Funds
We recommend that the Director, Office of Disaster Recovery, for future grants, develop and implement procedures to ensure that all applicable requirements for preventing any duplication of benefits are included in the adequacy criteria, grantee certifications, and HUD review checklists supporting Read More
Open Recommendation
The Puerto Rico Department of Housing Should Enhance Its Fraud Risk Management Practices
We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary instruct PRDOH to implement a process to regularly conduct fraud risk assessments and determine a fraud risk profile. The fraud risk profile should include key findings and conclusions from the risk assessment, including the analysis of the types of Read More
Open Recommendation
The Puerto Rico Department of Housing Should Enhance Its Fraud Risk Management Practices
We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary instruct PRDOH to improve fraud awareness initiatives, such as participating in organized antifraud conferences, reviewing the OIG’s Special Fraud Alerts, Bulletins, and Other Guidance, and attending fraud risk training tailored to the program’s Read More
Open Recommendation