Federal Reports

Dominic Signorelli, a podiatrist based in Los Angeles, was sentenced in U.S. District Court, Central District of California, on August 29, 2022, to five months in prison followed by 5 months’ home detention upon his release. He was ordered to pay a fine of $150,000 and to forfeit $955,000. Our investigation found that Signorelli received kickbacks from marketing companies for prescribing unnecessary compounded medications to patients without their knowledge. As a result of the scheme, Amtrak’s insurance providers were fraudulently charged approximately $22,000. A total of 11 defendants have been convicted and sentenced in conjunction with this scheme, with one defendant remaining to be sentenced.

As of June 30, 2022, there are 71 open recommendations (see Table 1 in the enclosed report), 10 of which were reported as implemented by management but remain open per OIG or Independent Public Accounting firm (IPA) determination; and none of the remaining 61 were considered "Overdue".

Our objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of DIA's overall information security program based on DIA's implementation of the Federal Information Security Modernization Act. We issued our results in a classified report on July 28, 2022.

Audit of NLRB IT Security for the FY 2022 FISMA submission

The Office of the Inspector General conducted an evaluation to determine if the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was accurately calculating and reporting its capacity to meet energy demand. We made recommendations for TVA management to: (1) improve or create new processes to define how capacity should be calculated, used, and reported, internally and externally, (2) correct reporting errors identified and implement controls to prevent future recurrence, and (3) continue to evaluate the risk posed by TVA's current system position and take actions as necessary to address. TVA management agreed to implement our recommendations.(Summary Only)