OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL Environmental Protection Agency — October 1, 2017 – March 31, 2018
Highlights from our investigative work include the completion of our investigation into the August 2015 release of over 3 million gallons of contaminated mine water from the Gold King Mine. Rivers and streams in four western states were affected by the release. The U.S. Attorney’s Office declined prosecution under any criminal offenses, and the EPA did not take administrative action against any employees. Another important investigation involved a former Tribal Administrator receiving an 18-month prison sentence and a restitution fine of $297,731 for embezzling funds. We also investigated a company president who was later ordered to serve a 12-month prison sentence, faces deportation, and has to repay $180,392 for his role in deceiving U.S. municipalities into spending federal stimulus money on his company’s foreign-made products.
Tribal Administrator Sentenced for Embezzling EPA Grant Funds
On January 22, 2018, Delia Commander, former Tribal Administrator of the Skagway Traditional Council in Skagway, Alaska, was sentenced to prison for embezzling funds from the council. Commander was sentenced to 18 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release. She was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $297,731 to the Skagway Traditional Council. The council had been awarded two EPA Indian General Assistance Program grants totaling over $900,000, both of which were subject to the fraudulent activity.
This investigation was conducted jointly with the U.S. Department of the Interior Office of Inspector General.
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AND AS AN ADDED BONUS… THE USPS…
This post is about ELECTION’S. Election fraud can encompass many aspects, from voting Illegally, to ‘losing’ votes mailed in, to ‘suddenly finding votes, etc.
I bet the USPS NEVER expected to be scrutinized SO CLOSELY by IG Horowitz.
Horowitz, responding to Session’s request to investigate HOW THE USPS HANDLES….ELECTION MAIL
Horowitz chose six mail processing facilities that were processing election and political mail for five special elections held on January 16 and January 23, 2018.
The sites we selected were the Milwaukee, WI, Pittsburgh, PA, and St. Paul, MN, Processing and Distribution Centers (P&DC); the Charleston, SC, Processing and Distribution Facility (P&DF); and the St. Paul, MN, and Pittsburgh, PA, Network Distribution Centers (NDC). We also observed Business Mail Entry Unit (BMEU) operations at the Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, and St. Paul P&DCs and the Charleston P&DF.
Ready to be Horrified?
Here’s an example how Election Mail is handled:
We found election and political mail processing errors at three of the six sites we visited:
■ St. Paul NDC employees moved political mail to the P&DC staging area without telling P&DC management about the transfer. Other mail was staged in front of it, which could have caused the political mail not to be seen and expedited. 😲
■ There was a sort plan error at the Charleston P&DF that caused additional manual sorting of election mail at the delivery station.
■ An employee at the Milwaukee P&DC removed ballots from automated mail processing because he believed the equipment would damage the mail. We brought these issues to the attention of local management, who immediately corrected them during our site visits.
It get’s worse. The Managers ADMIT they don’t know when Special Election’s are being held!
👉Finding #1: Lack of Readiness for the January 2018 Special Elections
We found that communication between headquarters and the mail processing facilities needed improvement. Specifically, plant managers at the six mail processing facilities we visited and seven of the eight election and political mail coordinators we interviewed said that headquarters did not notify them of the special elections in their processing service areas.
👉The managers and coordinators indicated that they first learned of these elections from our auditors. 😲WHAT??
👉The Manager, Operations and Integration Support, notified mail processing facilities about the special elections by email on January 18, 2018, after the start of our field work and the special elections.
EXPECT HUGE CHANGES AT USPS!!!
Source – Lisa Evans Rockwell
Read the whole nauseating report HERE
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Additional OIG Audit Articles:
OIG Audit – SSA (Social Security Administration) and their RAMPANT Fraud, Waste and Theft
OIG Audit – Department of Labor
OIG AUDIT: Amtrak and the MULTIPLE Investigations STILL UNDER WAY
More SWAMP DRAINING at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)