Federal Reports

The OIG investigated allegations that TVA Board Chairman William "Bill" Sansom's personal financial interests and position at TVA constituted a conflict of interest and that he had a relative who worked at TVA in violation of TVA's nepotism policy. Federal conflict of interest law prohibits federal officials and employees from acting on a particular matter in their official capacity which affects personal financial interests. There was no evidence Mr. Sansom participated in any particular matter as part of his TVA duties which was related to his personal financial interests. In addition to the conflict of interest law, TVA has a policy which prohibits Board members from owning investments in distributors, entities in the electricity business and companies adversely affected by TVA's success. None of Mr. Sansom's financial interests fell into these categories. The nepotism claim was unfounded. The TVA employee in question had the same name as Mr. Sansom's son-in-law but was unrelated.

The audit objectives were to determine whether program funds were managed in accordance with the ARC and Federal grant requirements

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted the Audit of the Federal Election Commission’s Office of Human Resources (OHR) based on the numerous findings identified in the 2009 Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) Human Capital Management Evaluation Report, concerns about the effectiveness of the OHR raised by FEC senior leaders during the OIG’s 2012 annual audit planning process, and the numerous unsatisfactory responses included in the 2011 OHR’s annual customer service survey.