Open Recommendations

Repay $294,060 disbursed for three ineligible grants to its Road Home program.

Either support or repay $441,027 disbursed for five unsupported grants.

Rec. A.1.a: The DoD OIG recommended that the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer, DoD, charge a proper appropriation, or coordinate with the Office of Management and Budget and the U.S. Treasury to:
(1) obtain a waiver to hold a certain amount of cash without charging an appropriation, or
(2) establish a new U.S. Treasury account symbol to charge when cash is obtained from the U.S. Treasury.

Rec. A.1.b: The DoD OIG recommended that the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer, DoD, revise DoD Financial Management Regulation 7000.14, volume 5, to reflect the implementation of Recommendation A.1.a.(1)-(2).

The OCIO should continue to update and implement entity-wide security policies and procedures and provide more direction and oversight to Program Offices for completing certification and accreditation requirements. In addition, documentation on application access permissions should be enhanced and linked with functional duties and procedures for granting logical access need to be refined to ensure access is granted only to authorized individuals.

The Bureau of Information Services should develop a comprehensive plan for the testing and evaluation of the agency’s contractor operations.

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If an adverse determination is made for Recommendation 1, collect program payments subject to limitation for each year for which a scheme or device was adopted and for the subsequent year. (The producers’ payments subject to limitation totaled over $1.4 million for the 2000 through 2002 crop years. See exhibit E.)

We recommend that the Director of HUD's Cleveland Office of Public Housing require the Agency to determine the appropriate administrative fees for the applicable households for which it is unable to provide supporting documentation cited in recommendation 2D and reimburse its program the applicable amount from nonfederal funds.

Repay $743,344 disbursed for the 17 ineligible grants to its Road Home program.

Review all of the remaining 392 grants coded ineligible or lacking an eligibility determination and either support or repay $14,697,812 disbursed for them.

The Bureau of Information Services should perform a physical inventory of information technology hardware and update the agency’s official fixed asset inventory system.

We recommend that the director of HUD's Office of Public Housing instruct the Authority to reimburse HUD for the excessive administrative fee charge of $692,990 in capital funds in accordance with the procedures described in 24 CFR 905.120.

We recommend that the director of HUD's Cleveland Office of Public Housing require the Authority to provide documentation to support that the $913,365 in refunding savings cited in this finding was used to provide affordable, decent, safe, and sanitary housing to very low-income households or reimburse from nonfederal funds its refunding savings account(s), as appropriate, to be able to trace its use of the savings.

We recommend that the director of HUD's Detroit Office of Public Housing require the Commission to Reimburse its program $535,903 from nonfederal funds ($507,860 for the property purchase plus $28,043 for legal costs) for the improper use of program funds to pay for the property's acquisition costs.

Require the Commonwealth to provide documentation to substantiate the eligibility of $150,000 provided to Southampton or repay the HOME program from nonfederal funds.

Continue its FBI Headquarters-managed asset validation review process and provide sufficient resources for the Analytical Unit to devote to these reviews.

Require that any analytical products relating to the asset, together with red flags, derogatory reporting, anomalies, and other counterintelligence concerns be documented in a subsection of the asset's file.

Require the field SSA, the ASAC, and the FBI Headquarters SSA responsible for each asset to signify that they have reviewed the entries in this subsection as part of the routine file review or of semi-annual or annual asset re-evaluations. If anomalies exist, the SSA should note what action has been taken with respect to them, or explain why no action is necessary, and the ASAC's agreement should be noted.

Require agents to record in the asset file any documents passed and all matters discussed with the asset, as well as each person who was present for the meeting.

Require alternate case agents to meet with the source on a regular basis, together with the case agent.

Limit the number of years any Special Agent can continue as an asset's handler. Exceptions should be allowed for good cause only.

We recommend that the director of HUD's Public Housing Hub, Cleveland Field Office, require the Authority to provide support or reimburse its Section 8 program $812,967 ($738,708 in housing assistance payments plus $74,259 in related administrative fees) from nonfederal funds for unsupported housing assistance payments and unearned administrative fees related to the 65 tenants cited in this finding.