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

United Shore Financial Services LLC (USFS) has agreed to pay the United States $48 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly originating and underwriting mortgage loans insured by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Federal Housing Read More

(Source: nhregister.com) BRIDGEPORT >> A former West Haven Housing Authority employee has been ordered by a federal judge to pay more than $130,000 in restitution for his role in encouraging the organization to enter into contracts with close friends who owed him money. John Sandella, 54, of Read More

TRENTON, N.J. – A former supervisor at Amtrak in Essex County, New Jersey, today admitted soliciting and accepting more than $7,000 worth of items for his personal use from a vendor as a reward for spending more than $185,000 with the vendor in his capacity as an Amtrak Building and Bridges Read More

BOSTON – A Boston Cab dispatcher and his wife were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with arranging a sham marriage for an Ethiopian relative so he could obtain legal status in the United States. Girma Tilahun, 61, a dispatcher for EJT Management, Inc., which operates Read More

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ROBERT LEES, a former senior executive of Universal Forest Products, Inc. (“UFP”), was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Karas to 50 months in prison for conspiracy, mail fraud, Read More

BOSTON – Edward J. Tutunjian, who has owned and operated Boston Cab through his company, EJT Management, Inc., for more than four decades, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston for payroll tax evasion, employing illegal aliens and for failing to pay overtime wages. Tutunjian, 67, of Read More

(Source: framinghamsource.com) BOSTON – A Milford woman pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with embezzling over $70,000 in rent payments owed to the Framingham Housing Authority. Rosa A. Famania, 33, pleaded guilty to one count of embezzling money from an agency Read More

BOSTON – A Milford woman pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with embezzling over $70,000 in rent payments owed to the Framingham Housing Authority (FHA).     Rosa A. Famania, 33, pleaded guilty to one count of embezzling money from an agency Read More

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Shannon C. Boston, 44, of Sunbury, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District court today to one count of failing to account for and pay over employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Benjamin C. Glassman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Kathy A Read More

(Source: housingwire.com) A little over five years ago, the government sued Allied Home Mortgage, its various entities, and its president and CEO, Jim Hodge for $834 million, claiming that Allied engaged in repeated fraud against the Federal Housing Administration over a 10-year period. The Read More