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Forensic Audits and Investigative Service
Our Work
Recent Accomplishments
Key Contacts
Our Work
The Forensic Audits and Investigative Service team provides Congress with high-quality forensic audits and investigations of fraud, waste, and abuse; other special investigations; and security and vulnerability assessments. Our team also manages Fraudnet, an online system for the public to report allegations of fraud, waste, abuse, or mismanagement of federal funds.
Our work addresses fiscal challenges facing our nation, organizational and individual ethics, stewardship over government resources, and issues related to homeland and national security. Our work is government-wide in scope rather than confined to one issue area. The team is composed of investigators, analysts, and auditors who have experience with forensic auditing and data mining, and staff in the office of our General Counsel.
Recent Accomplishments
- Identified $325 million in set-aside and sole-source contracts intended for socially and economically disadvantaged small businesses that were instead awarded to ineligible firms.
- Investigated serious problems at selected private residential programs for troubled teenagers, where negligence resulted in the death and abuse of young patients.
- Identified $146 million in improper first- and business-class travel government-wide.
- Issued a series of reports on over 100,000 federal contractors who owed billions of dollars in tax debt.
- Identified nearly 600,000 individuals holding commercial drivers’ licenses despite having a medical condition giving them full federal disability benefits.
- Exposed vulnerabilities in airport security by taking, undetected through airport security and onto aircraft, improvised explosive and incendiary device components that could threaten the safety of passengers when assembled and activated.
- Identified quality problems in the office responsible for auditing the Department of Defense and other federal agency contracts, including compromise of auditor independence, insufficient audit testing, and inadequate planning and supervision.
- Reviewed thousands of allegations of fraud, waste, and abuse received from the public through Fraudnet.
Key Contacts
Managing Directors: Richard J. Hillman
Director: Gregory D. Kutz
Phone: (202) 512-6722
Mailing Address:
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Financial Management and Assurance
Room 4061
441 G Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20548