Federal Reports

WASHINGTON – Nicholas Moore, 24, of Springfield, Tennessee, pleaded guilty this morning in U.S. District Court in connection with hacking the electronic filing system of the U.S. Supreme Court at least 25 times and additionally hacking accounts at AmeriCorps and the Veterans Administration Health System, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.

The independent public accounting firm of Allmond & Company, LLC, under contract with the Office of Inspector General, audited Help America Vote Act (HAVA) grants administered by the Utah Lieutenant Governor’s Office, totaling $15.3 million. This included federal funds, state matching funds, and interest income earned on the reissued Section 251 and Election Security grants.

Report on Audit of the FTC’s Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Statements

The Office of Inspector General contracted with the independent public accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP to audit NASA’s fiscal year 2025 financial statements. The audit results found the financial statements presented fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and results of NASA’s operations.

The objective of our inspection was to determine whether Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) reported verifiable data to IPEDS for the 2021–2022 reporting period. We found that SNHU did not always report verifiable data in the Student Financial Aid, Graduation Rates, and Institutional Characteristic Surveys to IPEDS for the 2021–2022 reporting period because it did not update and implement procedures for collecting, consolidating, assessing the reliability of, and reporting data to IPEDS. Because the data that SNHU reported to IPEDS were not always verifiable, its published net price, graduation rate, and cost of attendance for the 2021–2022 reporting period were unreliable. Prospective students and their parents might have made enrollment decisions based on this unreliable information. We made five recommendations to the Chief Operating Officer for Federal Student Aid and the Commissioner of the Department’s National Center for Education Statistics to address these issues. 

This is the first report of the fiscal year 2025 financial statements audit of the Smithsonian Institution and provides results of the Smithsonian Enterprises Net Gain review for fiscal year 2025 performed by the independent public accounting firm of KPMG LLP.