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Internal Revenue Service
Employer Noncompliance With Wage Reporting Requirements Significantly Reduces the Ability to Verify Refundable Tax Credit Claims Before Refunds are Paid
We investigated allegations that a senior official with the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) made several comments that caused other DOI employees to question his ethics. He allegedly expressed his intent to assist two American Indian tribes he had worked with before becoming a DOI employee, encouraged subordinates to hire his former business associates and to arrange for the DOI to approve payment of the guarantee on a tribal loan he had been involved with before he came to the DOI, and asked a DOI employee to hire one of his relatives.We found that in the short time the senior official worked for the DOI, he made several comments that created an appearance to employees that he was planning to give preferential treatment to entities he had relationships with:• He told employees that he intended to continue assisting two tribes he had worked with before coming to the DOI. We found he assisted these tribes only once as a DOI employee, when he volunteered to schedule meetings for them with Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke.• He spoke to subordinates about hiring his former business associates and approving the loan guarantee payment. Although this did not violate regulations, his statements made his subordinates uncomfortable.• He asked a DOI employee to hire his relative. He claimed that his request had been meant as a joke, but the employee believed he had been serious.The senior official has left the DOI. We provided this report to the Deputy Secretary of the Interior for any action deemed appropriate.
Independent Auditors’ Report on Compliance for the Major Federal Program; Report on Internal Control Over Compliance; and Report on Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards Required by the Uniform Guidance for Fiscal Year 2017
Schedule of Costs Incurred Audit of ICF Macro Inc., Under Demographic and Health Surveys Program in Afghanistan, Contract AID-OAA-C-13-00095, September 9, 2013, to December 31, 2015
Audit of Costs Incurred by New York University, Under the Assessment of Learning Outcomes and Social Effects in Community-Based Education Program in Afghanistan, Grant Agreement AID-306-G-13-00004, January 1, 2014, to August 31, 2015
Our objective was to assess the effectiveness of internal controls over Voyager fleet cards used in delivery operations in the Great Lakes Area.U.S. Bank manages the Voyager Fleet Systems credit card program for the U.S. Postal Service, and actively monitors transactions to identify potentially fraudulent use of credit cards. Every Postal Service-owned vehicle is assigned a Voyager card to pay for fuel, oil, and routine vehicle maintenance. Monthly, site managers are responsible for reconciling card transactions identified as high-risk, such as purchases that exceed the fuel purchase limit.The Great Lakes Area has 1,411 sites with 32,808 Voyager cards. The total amount charged to these cards in fiscal year (FY) 2016 was $67,005,537; transactions totaling $3,506,684 were flagged as high risk, requiring reconciliation. We selected the Great Lakes Area for audit based on the high fleet card costs and number of exception transactions.
