Federal Reports

A Senior Director in Washington, D.C., was terminated from employment on April 14, 2020, following the issuance of our investigative report to the company. Our investigation found that the employee violated company policy when she participated on a Technical Evaluation Committee involved in the rating and selection of her friend’s company to conduct work for Amtrak. In addition, we found that the employee accepted a gift from this vendor.

A manager violated company policies by repeatedly directing company employees to provide a deluxe bedroom free of charge to a passenger, resulting in a potential financial loss to the company of $11,512. On April 8, 2020, a counseling letter was issued to the manager and included a requirement that he attend courses in Ethics in the Workplace and Workplace Harassment.

We chose the Foothill Station based on our analysis of city carriers returning after 6:00 p.m. using data from the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). Our objective was to review select mail delivery and customer service operations at the Foothill Station. Our fieldwork was completed before the President of the United States issued the national emergency declaration concerning the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak on March 13, 2020. The results of this audit do not reflect process and/or operational changes that may have occurred at this facility as a result of the pandemic.

We conducted a performance audit of the Tennessee Arts Commission (Commission) for the period of September 1, 2016 through August 31, 2019. Based on our performance audit, we concluded that the Commission generally complied with financial management system and recordkeeping requirements established by the Office of Management and Budget and the National Endowment for the Arts. However, we identified some areas requiring improvement. A summary of our findings is as follows. The Commission: did not report actual costs on its award Federal Financial Reports (FFRs); included costs incurred outside the award period on FFRs; and did not verify that vendors were eligible to receive Federal funds.

This letter to Congress reports on NCUA OIG's assessment of the NCUA's 2019 compliance under the requirements of the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act (IPERA).

We investigated allegations that a utility company improperly valued gas produced from Federal mineral leases and underpaid mineral royalties to the Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR).We did not substantiate the allegations and found the utility company complied with Federal guidance when it calculated and paid Federal mineral royalties to ONRR.