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Brought to you by the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency
We have reviewed the system of quality control for the audit organization of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) Office of Inspector General (OIG) in effect for the year ended September 30, 2024. A system of quality control encompasses Amtrak OIG’s organizational structure, and the policies adopted, and procedures established to provide it with reasonable assurance of conforming in all material respects with Government Auditing Standards1 and applicable legal and regulatory requirements. The elements of quality control are described in Government Auditing Standards.
In our opinion, the system of quality control for the audit organization of Amtrak OIG in effect for the year ended September 30, 2024, has been suitably designed and complied with to provide Amtrak OIG with reasonable assurance of performing and reporting in conformity with applicable professional standards and applicable legal and regulatory requirements in all material respects.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General performed this audit pursuant to the Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act. The Act requires the EPA to prepare and the OIG to audit the accompanying financial statements of the EPA’s Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest System Fund.
Summary of Findings
We rendered an unmodified opinion on the EPA’s fiscal years 2023 and 2022 Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest System Fund, known as the e-Manifest Fund, financial statements, meaning that the statements were fairly presented and free of material misstatement. We did not identify any matters that we consider to be material weaknesses or significant deficiencies in the fund.
A former executive of a Chicago-area non-profit organization has pleaded guilty to a federal fraud charge for her role in misappropriating $1.8 million intended to support the charity’s work with underprivileged youth.
This Office of Inspector General (OIG) Healthcare Facility Inspection program report describes the results of a focused evaluation of the care provided at the VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System in Leeds.
This evaluation focused on five key content domains: • Culture • Environment of care • Patient safety • Primary care • Veteran-centered safety net
The OIG issued one recommendation for improvement in one domain: 1. Environment of care • Leaders assess storage locations outside of standard supply rooms and implement a process to ensure staff remove expired supplies
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Financial Statements as of and for the Years Ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, and Independent Auditors’ Reports
Department of Agriculture, Department of Education, Department of Health & Human Services, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Labor, Department of the Interior, Department of the Treasury
A Review of Pandemic Relief Funding and How It Was Used In Six U.S. Communities: White Earth Nation Reservation in Minnesota
To learn how communities across the nation responded to the pandemic, we initiated a multi-part review of six communities—two cities, two rural counties, and two Tribal reservations. This report is the fourth community-specific report and focuses on our work in White Earth Nation Reservation in Minnesota, where we previously identified that recipients, including city government, small businesses, and individuals, received almost $278 million from 56 pandemic relief programs and subprograms. This report provides a closer look at ten pandemic programs and subprograms provided to White Earth Nation Reservation by seven federal departments.
We audited loanDepot.com to evaluate its quality control (QC) program for originating and underwriting Single Family Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-insured loans. We selected loanDepot for review based on its loan volume and delinquency rate and because its rate of self-reporting loans to HUD when it identified fraud, material misrepresentations, and other material findings that it could not mitigate was below average for more than a 5-year period.
We found that loanDepot’s QC program for originating and underwriting FHA-insured loans was not sufficient. Specifically, loanDepot (1) did not select the proper number of loans for review and maintain complete and accurate data to document its loan selection process; (2) missed material deficiencies; and (3) did not adequately assess, mitigate, and report loan review findings, which included self-reporting loans to HUD when required. These issues occurred because loanDepot had insufficient controls over its QC program. As a result, HUD did not have assurance that loanDepot’s QC program fully achieved its intended purposes, which include, among other things, protecting the FHA insurance fund and lender from unacceptable risk, guarding against fraud, and ensuring timely and appropriate corrective action.
We recommended that HUD require loanDepot to (1) update its QC plan and related procedures to align with HUD requirements; (2) provide training to its staff and management on HUD requirements for lender QC programs; (3) review the loans that it had not selected and take appropriate actions when applicable; and (4) evaluate its QC files for the loans in which it identified material findings to confirm whether it self-reported to HUD all findings of fraud or material misrepresentation, along with any other material findings that it did not acceptably mitigate.
