HUD's Office of Multifamily Housing Monitoring of Civil Rights Compliance
HUD OIG is auditing the Office of Multifamily Housing's monitoring of civil rights compliance. Fair housing and civil rights are critical in making sure all Americans have equal access to the housing of their choice. The audit objective is to assess the extent to which HUD's Office of Read More
Octubre 27, 2023
Work Start Notification
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Avoiding Disaster Benefits Fraud
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provides funding to victims recovering from natural disasters. It is critical that applicants fill out all paperwork and answer all questions truthfully when applying for disaster benefits.
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Carbon Monoxide in HUD-Assisted Housing
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program offices issued departmental notices to inform public housing agencies (PHA) and owners of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021’s (the Act) requirements. In addition, HUD program offices planned to use HUD’s revised Read More
Octubre 26, 2023
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Preventing Duplication of Benefits When Using Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery and Mitigation Funds
WASHINGTON DC— Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued an audit examining HUD’s efforts to prevent duplication of benefits when using Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery and Mitigation (CDBG-DR/MIT) funds.
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Octubre 24, 2023
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Preventing Duplication of Benefits When Using Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recover and Mitigation Funds
We performed an audit examining HUD’s efforts to prevent duplication of benefits when using Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Disaster Recovery and Mitigation funds. Our objective was to determine how the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) assesses the adequacy of Read More
Octubre 24, 2023
Report
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Aurora Man Convicted of Defrauding Non-Profit of More Than $880,000 Intended to Address Cleveland Food Desert
CLEVELAND –United States Attorney Rebecca C. Lutzko announced today that Arthur Fayne, 61, who managed the development of the New East Side Market, was found guilty of all 9 counts of wire fraud for embezzling more than $880,000 in funds intended to help the residents of Cleveland’s Glenville Read More
Octubre 20, 2023
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Tracking Pandemic Relief Funds that Went to Local Communities Reveals Persistent Data Gaps and Data Reliability Issues
The PRAC and ten of its member Offices of Inspector General (OIG) (together, the PRAC Oversight Team) undertook this case study-based review: 1. To determine how much pandemic relief funding went to six selected communities; 2. To gain more insight about how the six communities used their pandemic Read More
Julio 01, 2023
Topic Brief
President of Suburban Chicago Environmental Company Indicted for Allegedly Obstructing Federal Probe Into Grant Funding of Hotel Demolition Project
CHICAGO — A federal grand jury has indicted the president of an environmental services company for allegedly obstructing an investigation into the grant funding of a hotel demolition project in the Chicago suburb of Harvey, Ill.
CARL FIORAVANTI, 55, of Lansing, Ill., is charged with one count of Read More
Octubre 19, 2023
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Former Atlanta attorney convicted of stealing millions of dollars from clients
ATLANTA - Matthew Allen Dickason, who was the owner of an Atlanta law firm, has pleaded guilty to federal charges arising from a scheme to defraud the firm’s clients.
“It is shameful for an attorney to abuse the trust placed in him by his clients, but that is exactly what Dickason did,” said U.S. Read More
Octubre 17, 2023
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HUD’s Compliance with the Payment Integrity Information Act for Fiscal Year 2023
HUD OIG is auditing HUD's compliance with the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA) for fiscal year 2023. PIIA helps agencies identify improper payments, which could impact HUD’s beneficiaries and ultimately undermines the integrity of HUD’s programs, which hinders HUD in fully achieving Read More
Octubre 01, 2023
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Osceola County Mortgage Loan Officer Sentenced For Bank Fraud And Aggravated Identity Theft Charges Involving Forging Of Judges’ Signatures
Orlando, Florida – U.S. District Judge Paul Byron has sentenced Omayra Ujaque (52, St. Cloud) to two years and eight months in federal prison for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Ujaque was convicted at trial on April 13, 2023.
According to evidence presented at trial, Ujaque, in her Read More
Septiembre 14, 2023
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Assessing the completeness of HUD’s subaward data on USAspending.gov
HUD OIG is auditing HUD’s subaward data reported in USAspending.gov. Doing this work will provide the current condition and challenges faced by grantees to comply with the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) subaward data reporting requirements. Our audit objective is to Read More
Octubre 01, 2023
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Real Estate Executive Pleads Guilty to Multi-Year Conspiracy to Falsify Financial Statements
A California real estate executive pleaded guilty yesterday to engaging in an extensive multi-year conspiracy to falsify financial statements.
According to court documents, Tyler Ross, 37, formerly of Michigan, served as co-chief executive officer of ROCO Real Estate LLC and ROCO Management LLC, Read More
Septiembre 29, 2023
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Local Property Owner to Pay $90,458 to Resolve Alleged False Claims Act Violations Arising from HUD’s Housing Choice Voucher Program
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced today that a local property owner will pay $90,458 to settle allegations that he violated the False Claims Act by charging a low-income tenant more than the amount permitted under the property owner’s agreement with the government Read More
Septiembre 29, 2023
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United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero and HUD Inspector General Rae Oliver Davis Host a Safe Housing Seminar Focused on Promoting Health and Safety in HUD-Assisted Housing
PHILADELPHIA, PA – United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Inspector General Rae Oliver Davis hosted a Safe Housing Seminar today focused on promoting the health and safety of tenants living in HUD-assisted housing.
The seminar, which Read More
Septiembre 29, 2023
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HUD OIG Posters and Brochures
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Justice Department Obtains Consent Decree in Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Against Owners of Minneapolis Area Rental Properties
MINNEAPOLIS – The Justice Department today announced that it has obtained a consent decree with Reese Pfeiffer and several other defendants to resolve allegations that Pfeiffer violated the Fair Housing Act (FHA) by subjecting 23 women to severe and repeated sexual harassment and retaliation at Read More
Octubre 25, 2021
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Independence Man Sentenced to 17 Years in Prison for $2.2 Million Fraud Schemes
Sold Stolen Rental Equipment, Real Estate He Didn’t Own
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – An Independence, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for two fraud schemes in which he sold unwitting victims rental equipment and real estate that did not belong to him.
Jeremy Ace Woods, 46, was sentenced by U. Read More
Septiembre 20, 2023
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Two Nigerian Nationals Sentenced in Online Romance Fraud Conspiracy
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Two Nigerian nationals have been sentenced to prison, probation, and owe over $500,000 in restitution for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from victims in romance fraud schemes, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
According to court documents, beginning in Read More
Septiembre 18, 2023
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HUD Assisted Grantees in Navigating the ONAP COVID-19 Recovery Programs, but Grantees
Reported Challenges
Consider grantee feedback on the challenges they faced as part of ONAP’s planning for technical assistance and training of ONAP COVID-19 recovery program grantees.
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