Federal Reports

Our investigation determined that an Amtrak manager based in Philadelphia likely forged an employee’s signature on his final disciplinary waiver and a second disciplinary waiver for another employee in December 2022. On March 31, 2025, the manager was placed on administrative leave pending termination. He retired on April 8, 2025, and is no longer eligible for rehire.

Why We Did This Report

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General is issuing this report to notify the Agency of concerns identified during an investigation so that it may consider measures for improvement regarding scientific integrity and ethical conduct.

Summary of Findings

The OIG has identified concerns regarding the EPA Office of Research and Development’s, or ORD’s, review and clearance process for manuscripts; its lack of oversight of published manuscripts, authorship designation, and lab visitors; and its failure to ensure that ORD staff uphold federal ethical standards and Agency policies regarding impartiality and scientific integrity in the workplace. These issues enabled an ORD researcher to collaborate with family members on EPA work products without obtaining the proper waivers to guard against conflicts of interest, to add the researcher’s underaged child as a coauthor to a manuscript that had already been cleared by EPA management, and to bring the researcher’s underaged children into an EPA lab despite established safety prohibitions. In addition, we are concerned that the OIG was not notified in a timely manner that the EPA had initiated its own internal investigation into these issues, which adversely affected the efficiency and effectiveness of our investigation.

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Section 487(a)(17) of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA), requires postsecondary schools participating in Title IV programs to annually report data, including data relevant to students’ cost of attendance and financial aid and the schools’ graduation rates, to the U.S. Department of Education’s (Department) Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) to the satisfaction of the Secretary The objective of our inspection was to determine whether the National College of Business & Technology Company, Inc., doing business as NUC University (NUC University), reported verifiable data to IPEDS for the 2020–2021 reporting period. We found that NUC University did not always report verifiable data to IPEDS for the 2020–2021 reporting period. The total amount of grant or scholarship aid that NUC University students received for the 2020–2021 reporting period and the number of full-time undergraduate students who were enrolled in the fall of 2020 and seeking their first postsecondary certificate or degree that the school reported to IPEDS were not verifiable. In addition, the number of students who were full-time undergraduate students who began attending the school during academic year 2015–2016, were seeking their first postsecondary certificate or degree, and completed their program of study by the end of academic year 2020–2021 (150 percent of the normal time) that NUC University reported to IPEDS were not verifiable. While not all reported data were verifiable, the average tuition and fees, books and supplies, room and board, and other expenses charged to full-time undergraduate students who were seeking their first certificate or degree that the school reported to IPEDS for the 2020–2021 reporting period were verifiable. NUC University did not always report verifiable data to IPEDS because it did not design and implement procedures for collecting, consolidating, assessing the reliability of, and reporting data to IPEDS.

This Office of Inspector General (OIG) Healthcare Facility Inspection program report describes the results of a focused evaluation of the care provided at the VA Bronx Healthcare System in New York.

This evaluation focused on five key content domains:
  •    Culture
  •    Environment of care
  •    Patient safety
  •    Primary care
  •    Veteran-centered safety net

The OIG issued no recommendations.