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Intellectual Property: Stronger Fraud Risk Management Could Improve the Integrity of the Trademark System

GAO-24-106533
Mar 14, 2024
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Patent and Trademark Office Recommendation 1: The Commissioner for Trademarks should plan and conduct regular fraud risk assessments of the trademark register to determine a fraud risk profile that aligns with leading practices in the Fraud Risk Framework. Specifically, this process should include (1) identifying inherent fraud risks to the trademark register, (2) assessing the likelihood and impact of inherent fraud risks, (3) determining fraud risk tolerance, (4) examining the suitability of existing fraud controls, and (5) documenting the fraud risk profile.
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Patent and Trademark Office Recommendation 2: The Commissioner for Trademarks should identify and implement improvements to current data systems to strengthen trademark data analytics for stronger fraud risk management.
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Anti-Money Laundering: Better Information Needed on Effectiveness of Federal Efforts

GAO-24-106301
Mar 11, 2024
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Department of the Treasury The Secretary of the Treasury should ensure that the Director of FinCEN develop and implement a communications plan to regularly inform Congress and the public in full about its progress implementing the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of the Treasury The Secretary of the Treasury should ensure that the Director of FinCEN work with its survey vendor to improve the reliability of the agency's annual customer satisfaction surveys and appropriately disclose survey data limitations when results are reported. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Justice The Attorney General should lead an effort, in coordination with the Departments of Homeland Security and the Treasury, to develop a methodology for producing government-wide data on the outcomes of anti-money laundering investigations. This effort could be conducted in conjunction with the interagency working group DOJ was directed to form in the joint explanatory statement accompanying its fiscal year 2023 appropriation. (Recommendation 3)
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DOD Fraud Risk Management: Enhanced Data Analytics Can Help Manage Fraud Risks

GAO-24-105358
Feb 27, 2024
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) revises DOD's Fraud Risk Management Strategy to establish data analytics as a method for preventing, detecting, and responding to fraud. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) identifies and documents in DOD's Fraud Risk Management Strategy which entity has the necessary authority to ensure that fraud-related data-analytics activities are planned and implemented. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) revises DOD's Fraud Risk Management Strategy to clarify and document roles and responsibilities related to data-analytics activities. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) incorporates and documents timelines for designing and implementing data-analytics activities into DOD's Fraud Risk Management Strategy. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of Defense The Inspector General of DOD should improve the usability of its procurement fraud investigative data for fraud risk management purposes. Specific actions should include ensuring that data in structured fields are complete, accessible, and readily subject to analysis and aggregation. (Recommendation 5)
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force, in collaboration with the Inspector General of DOD and the other military departments, should improve the usability of its respective procurement fraud investigative data by DOD for fraud risk management purposes. Specific actions should include ensuring that data in structured fields are complete, accessible, and readily subject to analysis and aggregation. (Recommendation 6)
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Online Extremism: More Complete Information Needed about Hate Crimes that Occur on the Internet

GAO-24-105553
Feb 12, 2024
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1 Open Recommendations
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Bureau of Justice Statistics The Director of BJS should explore options to measure bias-motivated criminal victimization that occurs on the internet through the National Crime Victimization Survey or in a supplemental survey, as appropriate. (Recommendation 1)
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