Management of Lead-Based Paint in a Maryland Public Housing Agency
HUD OIG is reviewing a housing authority in Maryland. The Authority owns and manages public housing units to serve low-income families. Our objective is to determine whether the Authority adequately managed lead-based paint and lead-based paint hazards in its public housing.
March 01, 2025
Work Start Notification
#CH 25 0003
Former Cleveland City Council Member Sentenced to Prison
CLEVELAND – Basheer Jones, 40, of Cleveland, Ohio, has been sentenced to 28 months in prison by U.S. District Judge J. Philip Calabrese, after pleading guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud and honest services fraud by using his role as a public official for personal financial gain by seeking Read More
April 01, 2025
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Four Real Estate Investors Sentenced in Multimillion-Dollar Loan Scheme
Four real estate investors were sentenced in an extensive, multi-year conspiracy to fraudulently obtain multimillion-dollar loans on commercial and multifamily properties.Aron Puretz, 53, of New Jersey, and his son, Chaim “Eli” Puretz, 29, of New Jersey, were sentenced to prison for conspiracy to Read More
April 01, 2025
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HUD Open Obligations Review Results
To determine whether all the unexpended obligations of HUD are valid and meet funding guidelines, the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) coordinates annually an Open Obligation Review (OOR) of all program and administrative funds. This review determines which funds are still needed and Read More
March 31, 2025
Report
#2025-FO-0802
Fraud Risk Inventories (Capital Fund, Disaster Recovery, and Single-Family Housing programs)
HUD OIG is auditing HUD programs to identify fraud risks for funds that HUD received for its Capital Fund, Disaster Recovery, and Single-Family Housing programs. Our objective is to develop three separate inventories of fraud risks that HUD has not already identified for the three programs.
March 01, 2025
Work Start Notification
#FW 25 0004
Newark Expediter Admits Conspiring To Give Bribes To Newark Officials And Other Fraud
NEWARK, N.J. – A Newark-based expediter today admitted to conspiring to give bribes to Newark public officials, including then-Newark Councilmember Joseph A. McCallum, Jr., in connection with real estate development and construction-related transactions and conspiring with others to create and sell Read More
March 24, 2025
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South Carolina Construction Company to Pay $191,070 to the United States to Resolve False Claims Allegations
Claims Relate to Fraudulent Disaster Recovery Services After Devastating 2016 Flooding in West VirginiaCHARLESTON, W.Va. – Acting United States Attorney Lisa G. Johnston announced today that Thompson Construction Group Inc., of Sumter, South Carolina, has agreed to pay the United States $191, Read More
March 31, 2025
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Information System Controls Over the Integrated Pool Management System
We audited the general controls over the Integrated Pool Management System (IPMS) as part of the internal control assessments required for the fiscal year 2018 financial statements audit under the Chief Financial Officer’s Act of 1990. Our objective was to evaluate and assess internal Read More
December 21, 2018
Report
#2019-DP-0001
Final Civil Action: Universal American Mortgage Company, LLC, Settled Allegations of Failing To Comply With HUD’s Federal Housing Administration Loan Requirements
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Inspector General (OIG), assisted the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern and Western Districts of Washington in the civil investigation of Universal American Mortgage Company, LLC. Read More
December 21, 2018
Memorandum
#2019-CF-1801
The Housing Authority of the City of North Chicago, North Chicago, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD’s Requirements and Its Own Policies Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
We audited the Housing Authority of the City of North Chicago’s Housing Choice Voucher Program based on our analysis of risk factors related to the public housing agencies in Region 5’s jurisdiction and the activities included in our 2018 annual audit plan. Our audit objective was to Read More
December 20, 2018
Report
#2019-CH-1001
HUD’s Use of Contractors
The Federal Government may choose to outsource for products or services using contracts and contractors. HUD-owned and contractor-supported products and services are core to achieving HUD’s mission. In FY 2017, HUD awarded 2,338 contracts, modifications, and task orders valued at $3.9 Read More
December 20, 2018
Report
#2017-OE-0006
Federal Grand Jury Indicts Businessman on Tax Evasion Charges
CHICAGO — A federal grand jury in Chicago has indicted a businessman on tax evasion charges for allegedly scheming to evade personal income taxes for three years.
As the owner of the security firm World Security Bureau, ABRAHAM KISWANI, also known as “Ibriham Kiswani,” willfully failed to pay the Read More
December 20, 2018
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3 moms indicted in connection with Facebook scam that raked in over $300K from hundreds of victims across U.S., Canada
(SOURCE: Cleveland19.com) CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - A major new development surfaced Wednesday in a lucrative Facebook scam first exposed by a Cleveland 19 undercover investigation in June 2017.
A Cuyahoga County grand jury has indicted Zienup Sbeih-Maddox, 24, of Cleveland; Kirsten Laurie, 26, of Read More
December 20, 2018
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Press Release
The Owners of Civic Towers and Civic Towers Senior in Miami, FL, Generally Corrected Section Eight Housing Assistance Payments To Address Duplicate Benefits and Ensured That the Payments Were Eligible and Supported
We audited the Civic Towers, LLLP, and Civic Towers Senior, LLLP, Section 8 project-based housing assistance payment (HAP) program. We selected the Civic Towers and Civic Towers Senior Section 8 project-based properties for review based on a referral from our Office of Investigation regarding Read More
December 14, 2018
Report
#2019-AT-1001
Review of Data Related to Our Report: HUD’s Oversight of the Alexander County Housing Authority in Cairo, IL, 2017-OE-0014
On July 24, 2018, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Inspector General (OIG), issued a report on HUD’s oversight of the Alexander County Housing Authority (ACHA) in Cairo, IL. The report concluded that HUD could and should have done more to oversee the Read More
December 17, 2018
Report
#2017-OE-0014a
Top Management Challenges Facing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in 2019 and Beyond
Each year, in compliance with Public law 106-531, the Reports Consolidation Act of 2000, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Inspector General (OIG), issues a report summarizing what we consider to be the most serious management challenges facing the Department. Read More
November 20, 2018
Top Management Challenges
SAR 80 - Semiannual Report to Congress for the period ending September 30, 2018
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
December 17, 2018
Semiannual Report
#SAR-80
FORMER PRESIDENT OF HARTFORD NONPROFIT PLEADS GUILTY TO STEALING FROM HUD PROGRAM
John H. Durham. United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that STEVEN F. HARVIN, 53, of New Haven, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of theft from programs receiving federal funds.
According to court documents Read More
December 12, 2018
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Press Release
The Housing Authority of the County of Alameda, Hayward, CA, Generally Administered Its Rental Assistance Demonstration in Accordance With HUD Requirements
We audited the Housing Authority of the County of Alameda’s Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) conversion to the Section 8 Project-Based Voucher Program. We selected the Authority because reviews of RAD conversions were aligned with the goals of our annual audit plan. The objective Read More
December 11, 2018
Report
#2019-LA-1002
Fraudsters Sentenced to Federal Prison and Ordered to Pay Restitution of More Than $491,000 after a Jury Convicted Them of Federal Charges Related to Foreclosure Prevention Fraud Scheme
Greenbelt, Maryland – On December 3, 2018, U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Michelle Sylethia Jordan, a/k/a Michelle Harris and Michelle Welsh, age 49; and her husband, Michael Paul Anthony Welsh, a/k/a Michael A. Welsh and Michael Paul S. Welsh, age 45, both of Laurel, Maryland, to 57 Read More
December 04, 2018
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