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From October 2014 until 2017, Patel admitted to using her position within the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General to access and create copies of EDS’s source code, the investigative database used by DHS-OIG, and also containing personal identifying information of DHS and Postal Service employees, so as to provide ...
The OIG completes these tasks to detect and deter waste, fraud, abuse, and misconduct, and to promote integrity, economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in Department of Justice operations. The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) consists of a front office, which comprises the Inspector General, the Deputy Inspector General, the Office of the ...
In the United States, other than in the military departments, the first Office of Inspector General was established by act of Congress in 1976 [1] under the Department of Health and Human Services to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare, Medicaid, and more than 100 other departmental programs. [2]
A multi-year criminal investigation under former Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva into the agency's inspector general — a probe that a legal advisor for the county called "not legally ...
The U.S. Department of the Interior Office of Inspector General (DOI OIG) is one of the Inspector General offices created by the Inspector General Act of 1978. [1] The Inspector General for the Department of the Interior is charged with investigating and auditing department programs to combat waste, fraud, and abuse.
The Inspector General Act of 1978 mandated many federal departments to create Offices of Inspector General. The Act imposed a requirement on inspectors general to report both to their agency heads and to Congress. The Inspector General of the Department of State was one of the last federal OIGs to be created. [5]
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is responsible for detecting and preventing fraud, waste, abuse, and violations of law and to promote economy, efficiency and effectiveness in the operations of USAID, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the United States African Development Foundation, and the Inter-American Foundation.
The Office of Inspector General is broken up into six main components: management services, legal services, audit services, technology services, enterprise & external affairs, and investigation services. Each component is headed by an Assistant Inspector General (AIG) assisted by a Deputy Assistant Inspector General (DAIG). [3]