HONOLULU, Hawaii – Raelene Rodrigues, 62, of Honolulu, Hawaii was sentenced today. Rodrigues was the last of four defendants convicted and sentenced in connection with charges involving a scheme to defraud federally funded local housing programs for over $100,000 from approximately April 2015 to Read More

Club to pay $1.4 million to resolve allegations of False Claims Act violations ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico Fred J. Federici today announced a settlement agreement with the Santa Fe Boys and Girls Club to resolve issues involving two special project grants Read More

HOUSTON – Six Houston individuals have been indicted for their participation in a multi-state scheme involving mortgage fraud, credit repair and government loan fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery. Authorities are seeking two others. Leslie and ShyAnne Edrington, 65 and 29, Read More

HUD OIG is auditing the Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD) to determine whether it is tracking and improving the timing of its delivery of the Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program funds over the last 20 years, and whether CPD has met Congressional Read More

HUD OIG is auditing the Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD) to determine whether it effectively and efficiently designed its Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program requirements and monitoring to ensure that the grantees meet statutory and other Read More

The Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA) requires all federal agencies to conduct independent security technical verification testing on a sampling of information systems annually.  In conjunction with our fiscal year 2021 FISMA evaluation (2021-OE-0001), we conducted Read More

We audited the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) transitioning of offices from mandatory to maximum telework during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, based on a request from Representative Gerald Connolly, to review whether HUD was employing best practices and Read More

The Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA) directs Inspectors General to conduct an annual evaluation of the agency information security program.  FISMA, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and National Institute of Standards and Read More

Please find attached an advance copy of our office’s Audit Report No. 2022-CH-0002, entitled, “HUD’s Transitioning of Offices from Mandatory to Maximum Telework During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” which we initiated in response to your June 2020 letter. We focused our audit on whether HUD complied with Read More

The 2022-2026 HUD OIG Strategic Plan is our governing document for how we will build on our progress and continue evolving over the next 4 years. It is designed to paint a clear and compelling picture of where we are headed. We commit to the following 3 goals, knowing that they will require Read More

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Adam C. McFadden, 50, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of wire fraud and filing a false tax return, was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. McFadden was also ordered to pay Read More

Charley Rember, Jr.,52, former Executive Director of Madill Housing Authority in Madill, Oklahoma, was sentenced on January 26, 2022, to 8 years in prison (2 years suspended) and ordered to pay more than $477,000 in restitution and fines for embezzlement of over $450,000 of government money to Read More

We audited the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) oversight of its public housing agencies’ (PHA) reasonable accommodation policies and procedures.  We initiated this audit because we identified an increase in housing discrimination complaints based on a failure to Read More

New Orleans, LA – The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today that Kevin Richardson, 59, of New Orleans, was sentenced on January 13, 2022 by United States District Judge Susie Morgan to thirty (30) months in the Bureau of Prisons for violating Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1952(a)(3) Read More

HUD OIG has initiated the annual Ginnie Mae financial statement audit and has contracted with CliftonLarsonAllen LLP (CLA) to conduct the audit. The objectives of CLA’s audit are to (1) express an opinion on whether Ginnie Mae’s fiscal years 2022 and 2021 financial statements are fairly presented Read More

HUD OIG has initiated the annual HUD Consolidated financial statement audit and has contracted with CliftonLarsonAllen LLP (CLA) to conduct the audit. The objectives of CLA’s audit are to (1) express an opinion on whether HUD’s consolidated financial statements are fairly presented and adequately Read More

HUD OIG has initiated the annual FHA financial statement audit and has contracted with CliftonLarsonAllen LLP (CLA) to conduct the audit. The objectives of CLA’s audit are to (1) express an opinion on whether FHA’s fiscal years 2022 and 2021 financial statements are fairly presented and adequately Read More

Defendant Posed as HUD Contractor to Facilitate a Fraudulent Lien Release and Sale of Her Home Greenbelt, Maryland – Tammy Jones, a/k/a “Tammy Taylor”, age 53, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, pleaded guilty yesterday to wire fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme.  As part of her plea Read More

We audited the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s Continuum of Care (CoC) program.  The audit was initiated because of the homelessness crisis in the City of Los Angeles, which has the highest number of unsheltered people in the United States.  In addition, the Los Angeles city Read More

HUD OIG is conducting an audit to assess HUD’s overall fraud risk management program, and to identify fraud risks for funds that HUD received from the Coronavirus Aid Recovery and Economic Stability Act and American Rescue Plan Act. Our objectives are to 1) assess HUD’s progress in implementing a Read More