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Date Issued

General Counsel

  •  
    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2024-OE-0007-04
    Closed on April 30, 2025

    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.

  •  
    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.

Field Policy and Management

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2021-PH-0001-001-A
    Closed on August 27, 2021

    We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Office of Davis-Bacon and Labor Standards seek guidance from the Department of Labor to correct the wage determinations where applicable for the five projects addressed in this report.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2021-PH-0001-001-B
    Closed on August 27, 2021

    We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Office of Davis-Bacon and Labor Standards based on the outcome of recommendation 1A, determine the correct wages to be paid to workers and ensure that appropriate actions are taken to pay the workers.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2021-PH-0001-001-C
    Closed on August 27, 2021

    We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Office of Davis-Bacon and Labor Standards update HUD Handbook 1344.1, REV-2, CHG-2, and Labor Relations Letter No. LR-96-03 to comply with the Department of Labor’s policies and guidance on the application of wage determinations for construction projects.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2021-PH-0001-001-D
    Closed on August 27, 2021

    We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Office of Davis-Bacon and Labor Standards develop and implement controls to ensure that the appropriate Davis-Bacon wage rate determinations are implemented in the contracts of FHA-insured multifamily construction projects that require multiple wage determinations, including the requirement that contract specifications clearly identify the portions of the contract subject to each assigned wage determination, and that adequate documentation to support wage determinations is maintained.

General Counsel

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2020-KC-1001-001-G
    Closed on September 17, 2020

    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
    Closed on March 18, 2021

    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
    Closed on March 31, 2020

    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.

    Closed on March 31, 2022

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

  •  
    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.

    Closed on September 30, 2019

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

General Counsel

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    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.

    Closed on September 30, 2019

    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.

    Closed on September 30, 2019

    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.

    Closed on September 30, 2019

    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.

    Closed on March 19, 2019

    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.

    Closed on December 21, 2018

    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
    Closed on August 19, 2019

    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

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2018-PH-1007-002-D
    Closed on September 05, 2019

    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.

    Closed on August 27, 2018

    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

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    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.

    Closed on October 12, 2023

    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.