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The OIG initiated an investigation after an inventory of a safe located in the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) Office of Law Enforcement and Security (OLES), found that thousands of dollars in gift cards were unaccounted for.We found 119 gift cards in the safe, valued at $2,345, and property receipts that indicated more than $10,000 in gift cards had been provided to a former OLES official and another BLM employee to use towards official purchases. We were unable to determine the disposition of the remaining gift cards because there was no documentation, and the former OLES official and the other BLM employees we interviewed did not recall how the gift cards were disposed of.

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New York established a health insurance marketplace under the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to allow individuals and small businesses to shop for health insurance. The New York marketplace provides eligibility determination and enrollment services for both private health insurance plans offered through the marketplace and its State-based public health care programs: Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Office of Inspector General conducted risk assessments of the NCUA’s charge card programs as required by the Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act of 2012. The objectives of this engagement were, in part, to assess, identify, and analyze the risks of illegal, improper, or erroneous purchases and payments made through the NCUA’s purchase and travel card programs and determine whether the results of our risk assessments justified performing an audit. This engagement encompassed all three charge card programs and covered activity from October 1, 2016, through September 30, 2017.

OIG investigated allegations that Joseph Dubois filed a fraudulent surety bond to secure a contract at the Pine Hill School, Ramah Chapter of the Navajo Nation, NM.We found that the Ramah Navajo School Board contracted Dubois to renovate a building at the Pine Hill School. The contracts required him to obtain and provide a surety bond, but instead Dubois produced a fictitious surety bond that falsely appeared to be under the authority of a legitimate surety company.Dubois pled guilty to passing fictitious obligations and to tax evasion in U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico. He was sentenced to 27 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $410,550 in restitution to the Ramah Navajo School Board and the Internal Revenue Service.