DOJ’s new National Fraud Enforcement Division established to prosecute those who steal or fraudulently misuse taxpayer dollarsHOUSTON – A 56-year-old local resident has pleaded guilty to wire fraud, fraud in connection with a major disaster, threatening to kill a witness and assaulting/impeding a Read More

HUD OIG is reviewing a residential care facility in New York City. The operator of the facility is a not-for-profit entity which manages a skilled nursing facility and has a reported unpaid principal mortgage balance of more than $7 million as of December 31, 2025. Our audit objective is to Read More

Defendant voted in the 2024 presidential election under stolen identity, obtained a Massachusetts REAL ID and improperly received more than $400,000 in stolen federal benefitsBOSTON – A Colombian woman, unlawfully residing in Boston, was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for illegally Read More

Memphis, TN – Operation Clean House: Memphis concluded with a total of 17 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Inspector General (OIG) arrests including 7 Memphis Safe Task Force (MSTF) assists.  The majority of the 24 individuals taken into custody were current HUD Read More

A former Dallas Housing Authority (DHA) maintenance supervisor who stole from DHA was sentenced to 2 years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould.  Joel Ipina, 50, pled guilty in November 2025 to theft concerning programs receiving Read More

To assess the status of the U.S. Virgin Island’s CDBG-DR and CDBG-MIT programs and to identify any potential factors that may be affecting their progress.

ATLANTA - Tracy Jones, a former Senior Vice President at the Atlanta Housing Authority, has been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay restitution for a scheme to fraudulently collect Section 8 housing assistance payments for her own rental property and family members, making fraudulent Read More

Establish internal and financial controls to ensure that it allocates, tracks, and reports future non-Federal match costs separately from other disaster recovery costs within the DRGR system for future disasters, which will ensure that at least $1.3 million is correctly reported as other disaster Read More

Provide documentary support in the DRGR system that it met and did not exceed the match percentage set by FEMA for its completed Public Assistance activities

Require grantees to include in their DRGR system’s reports their non-Federal match costs in a manner that documents that they have met FEMA’s set match percentage requirements and issue a template to grantees to ensure consistency of reporting in their systems of records.

Instruct PRDOH to remediate all outside installations that are directly exposed to sunlight and the elements or repay HUD $19,185,244 from non-Federal funds.

Instruct PRDOH to enforce its contract terms and conditions, which requires installers to install batteries and inverters outside of direct sunlight and exposure to the elements.

Instruct PRDOH to address and correct all the deficiencies noted for the properties inspected.

Require PRDOH to submit supporting documentation so HUD can evaluate the basis of the contract amendments and determine the eligibility of more than $31 million in disaster recovery funds. If HUD determines that the contract amendments were not supported, PRDOH must reimburse HUD from non-Federal Read More

Require PRDOH to implement a review process to better structure its future contracts to ensure that the scope of work is clearly defined so that all parties understand the agreement. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring that the basic subtasks needed to complete projects are considered Read More

Instruct PRDOH to re-evaluate its use of the IRS Form 1040 AGI calculation methodology to assess participants’ income compared to the income calculation methodology defined under Section 8 program at 24 CFR § 5.609 and determine whether it ensures consistent eligibility determination for the Read More

Work with borrowers and lenders to develop a plan to address the issues for each of the 58 defaulted loans within a reasonable time frame and implement corrective actions for the 58 loans; thereby protecting HUD’s investment of $329,541,272.

Quantify the amount of unauthorized distributions in the portfolio of 21 properties with 35 loans reported by the independent public accountant on the borrowers’ audited financial statements covering fiscal years 2018 to 2024 and require the borrowers to repay the amount of unauthorized Read More

Flag all principals of the borrowers with unreimbursed and unauthorized distributions in the Active Partners Performance System (APPS) to ensure that HUD appropriately evaluates the risks associated with doing business with these principals.

Refer any borrowers to the DEC for a civil money penalty or any other appropriate enforcement actions within 60 days of borrowers’ financial statement receipts for all unauthorized distributions not repaid within 30 days. If HUD ORCF chooses to allow a longer repayment period, document in iREMS the Read More