The Inspectors General from the Department of Defense (DoD) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have launched coordinated, independent oversight projects related to their agencies’ respective roles in the ongoing delivery and distribution of U.S. humanitarian assistance to Gaza through the maritime corridor. The DoD and USAID Offices of Inspector General (OIG) oversight initiatives are part of a collaborative effort to review key aspects of DoD’s and USAID’s shared humanitarian mission in providing U.S. assistance to Gaza.

Inspector General Robert P. Storch announced today that the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) released the “Audit of Remote Maintenance and Distribution Cell–Ukraine Restructuring Contract Surveillance Planning and Contractor Oversight.”

Inspector General Robert P. Storch announced today that the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) released the report, “Evaluation of the DoD’s Accountability of Lost or Destroyed Defense Articles Provided to Ukraine Requiring Enhanced End-Use Monitoring.” The evaluation is the fourth in an ongoing series of reviews to assess the effectiveness with which the DoD is monitoring and accounting for enhanced end-use monitoring

The purpose of this memorandum is to notify you that we plan to begin the subject review in June 2024. The objective of this review is to assess the effectiveness of the DoD’s efforts to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza. We intend to first assess the DoD’s roles, responsibilities, and controls related to facilitating the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza through the maritime corridor.

The objective of this audit was to determine whether Army contracting personnel acted in accordance with Federal and DoD policies.

The objective of this evaluation was to determine whether the U.S. European Command’s Office of Defense Cooperation–Ukraine obtained complete loss reports for enhanced end use monitoring designated defense articles provided to the Ukrainian Armed Forces in a timely manner.

Jason Edmonds, age 45 of North East, Maryland pleaded guilty today to a federal charge of bribery relating to a bribery scheme at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. The guilty plea was announced by Erek L. Barron U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, Special Agent in Charge William DelBagno of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Baltimore Field Office, Special Agent in Charge Christopher Dillard of the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General, and Special Agent in Charge L. Scott Moreland of the Army Criminal Investigation Division.

Georgia chiropractor who owned or operated multiple durable medical equipment (DME) companies and a cancer genetic testing (CGx) company admitted her role in a health care fraud and illegal kickback conspiracy, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced today.

An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted engaging in multiyear schemes to defraud the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) by providing military equipment parts that were not authorized under the governing contracts and agreeing with another individual to rig bids for DoD contracts, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.