Federal Reports

Since the formation of the modern Postal Service in 1971, various laws gave it more retirement liability than other federal agencies. As an independent agency within the federal government, USPS is expected to be self-sustaining and cover costs — including retirement costs — through revenue. Thus, while other federal agencies receive annual congressional appropriations to fund retiree pension and health care benefits, the Postal Service generally receives no direct tax dollars and pays for these expenses from the sale of postal products and services. USPS’s retirement costs are significant — $10 billion in FY 2023 alone.

Marc Hoang, a pharmacist based in West Covina, California, was sentenced on January 8, 2024, in U.S. District Court, Central District of California, for making a false statement related to a health care fraud investigation. Hoang was sentenced to two years’ probation.Our investigation found that Hoang knowingly and willfully made a materially false and fraudulent statement on a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) form. Hoang submitted the form to the DEA to renew the controlled substances registration for his former pharmacy. On the form, Hoang represented that he was the person who distributed the controlled substances and was the officer and point of contact for the pharmacy, when in fact, he was not. Hoang was part of a large health care fraud scheme, in which beneficiaries were solicited to provide their insurance information to a pharmacist for medication they did not seek or need. As a result of the scheme, Amtrak’s health care plan was billed $32,489 of which $26,962 was paid, and Tricare, the U.S. military’s health care plan, paid $12,264,685 on the fraudulently submitted claims.

(December 2023) The IC IG has released its semiannual report to the DNI and Congress for the period of April 1, 2023 - September 30, 2023

We are providing this summary report for your information and use. Our objective was to provide a joint report on actions taken during calendar years 2021 and 2022 to carry out the requirements of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015.

Due to the importance of monitoring the performance of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Safety Program, the TVA Office of Inspector General (OIG) performed an evaluation of TVA’s health and safety committees (HSC). The objective of this evaluation was to determine if HSCs were effectively monitoring the remediation of identified safety concerns. The TVA OIG determined TVA HSCs are generally effective at monitoring the remediation of identified safety concerns. However, there were limited instances when safety concerns were not monitored or remediation plans were not established. In addition, we found some HSCs were not following requirements to meet at least quarterly and maintain meeting minutes.