Based on a complaint and a request from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (HUD PIH), we audited the Bay City Housing Authority, Bay City, TX.  The complainant’s allegations included improper procurement of an attorney and board meetings Read More

HUD OIG is conducting an audit of HUD’s compliance with the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA).  HUD is required to review all programs and activities they administer that may be susceptible to significant improper payments and publish payment integrity information in its Annual Read More

La Oficina de Asesoría Jurídica (OLC) provee asesoramiento legal y normativo independiente al IG y a todos los componentes de la OIG en una variedad de asuntos sustantivos y de procedimiento relacionados con las actividades de auditoría, evaluación e investigación de la OIG. OLC también se asocia Read More

OFICINA DE ADMINISTRACION La Oficina de Administración (OM) se compone de cinco divisiones. OM proporciona apoyo a la misión en las áreas de capital humano; relaciones laborales; adquisición; presupuesto y gestión financiera; y apoyo logístico administrativo. OM trabaja en conjunto con otras Read More

La IG y su personal de su oficina principal brindan liderazgo ejecutivo y establecen una dirección estratégica para un personal nacional de abogados, auditores, evaluadores, investigadores y profesionales de apoyo, que realizan revisiones e investigaciones independientes de y para HUD, sus Read More

La Oficina de Evaluación (OE) proporciona información útil para HUD y OIG impulsar el éxito de la misión. La OE desarrolla evaluaciones independientes de manera oportuna, creíble y constructiva para gerentes, aquellos responsables de elaborar la política correspondiente, partes interesadas y otros Read More

La Oficina de Auditoría (OA, por sus siglas en inglés) realiza auditorías de las operaciones de HUD y de sus socios de programas que llevan a cabo cientos de programas y actividades de HUD. OA consta de 4 divisiones de sede, 8 oficinas regionales y 25 oficinas exteriores. Los funcionarios de HUD, Read More

La Oficina de Investigación (OI) lleva a cabo investigaciones penales y administrativas para prevenir el fraude, desperdicio y abuso en los programas de HUD. OI tiene 7 oficinas regionales y 39 oficinas exteriores. El equipo altamente calificado de OI consiste en investigadores criminales con Read More

HUD OIG is reviewing HUD’s Office of Community Planning and Development’s (CPD) HUD’s Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, Community Development Block Grants (CDBG-CV) program.  The CARES Act provided $4.9 billion in CCDBG-CV funds to be used to prevent, prepare for, Read More

We audited the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) oversight of voucher utilization and reallocation in the Housing Choice Voucher Program based on the HUD Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) report on HUD’s top management challenges for fiscal year 2020 and HUD’s strategic Read More

Former Lafayette and Opelousas Housing Authority Executive Director Walter Guillory has been indicted on federal bribery and wire fraud charges. The U.S. Attorney’s Office on Thursday filed charges against Guillory, who was forced to resign as LHA director Oct. 25, 2010, following an audit that Read More

United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz - District of Massachusetts DEVELOPER SENTENCED TO 12.5 YEARS IN PRISON FOR ORCHESTRATING MASSIVE MORTGAGE FRAUD INVOLVING OVER $7 MILLION IN LOSS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: CHRISTINA DiIORIO-STERLING PHONE:  (617)748-3356 E-MAIL:  Read More

An Oakland County woman who admits stealing $380,000 from a program for the homeless is facing two years or more in prison. Linda Linseman is a former state employee. She's returning to Detroit federal court Tuesday, four months after pleading guilty to theft of government property. The plea deal Read More

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 18, 2013 Linda Linseman, 56, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced yesterday to 32 months imprisonment by Judge Robert H. Cleland for her theft of more than $385,000 in Federal and State grant funds designated to Lighthouse of Oakland, a non-profit organization in Read More

We audited the City of Norfolk’s Community Development Block Grant program based on our annual audit plan and a risk analysis, which indicated that the City had the most open activities in Virginia.  Our objective was to determine whether the City justified its program activities by ensuring Read More

Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSE GUZMAN, 53, of Waterford, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 51 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for operating an Read More

A New Orleans-based contractor who admitted to over-billing a Road Home subsidiary $236,000 was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to two-and-a-half years in prison. Praveen Kailas, a prominent and politically connected contractor, admitted to overbilling the state's Small Rental Property Read More

The Inspector General Act of 1978 requires the Inspector General to prepare semiannual reports summarizing the activities of the Office of Inspector General for the preceding six month periods. The semiannual reports are intended to keep the Secretary and the Congress fully informed of significant Read More

LA JOYA - The director of the La Joya Housing Authority says a federal investigation into his businesses may have been politically motivated. "It gets pretty dirty, they'll use whatever they want to distract the voters and trying to change, outcome (sic)," Juan Jose Garza said. Federal agents Read More

We are required to annually audit the consolidated financial statements of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in accordance with the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990 as amended. This report supplements our report on the results of our audit of HUD’s principal financial Read More