Government

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Case #14-ENF-0726-I – Improper Disclosure of Nonpublic Information

Background On July 18,2014, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Office of Inspector General (OIG), Office of Investigations (01), initiated…

May 16, 2017

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Case #15-ENF-0290-I – Inappropriate Relationship With a Subordinate Employee

Background On June 9, 201 5, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Office of lnspector General (OIG), Office of…

May 13, 2017

Army Denies Access to Congressional Budget Justification citing “… the unique FY17 and FY18 year in the budget world”

Background On March 3, 2017, I requested the Congressional Budget Justification document for FY2018. Some agencies have not completed their…

May 10, 2017

The Army Did Not Implement Effective Controls To Maintain Visibility and Accountability of Iraq Train and Equip Fund Equipment, September 14, 2016

Background The DoD OIG conducted this audit, the third in a series of audits on property accountability in support of…

May 5, 2017

Government Purchase Card Holders at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

Background On the morning of September 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed in a series of coordinated terrorist attacks…

May 4, 2017

Department of Labor Internal FOIA Desk Reference Guide, September 2010

Background Referenced within the U.S. Department of Labor 2011 Chief FOIA Officer Report, located at: https://www.dol.gov/sol/foia/2011ChiefFOIAOfficerRpt.htm, there was a reference to a Internal…

May 3, 2017

IRS Spoof Video of Donald Trump and ‘The Apprentice’

Background The Internal Revenue Service created a video parody of Donald Trump’s television show “The Apprentice” which was broadcast at…

April 27, 2017

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) FOIA Web Site Outage, 2014

Background In June of 2014, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) FOIA online submission tool went down. It created quite a…

April 26, 2017

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) CASE# 16-COM-0209-1, Employee Emailed Non Public Information to Personal GMAIL Account

Background According to the report: On September 21, 2015, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Office of the Inspector…

April 18, 2017

Review of Domestic Sharing of Counterterrorism Information, March 2017

Executive Summary Fifteen years after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, the terrorist threat remains in…

April 18, 2017