The DoD OIG newsletter summarizes the reports and investigations released by the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General in the previous month and those we anticipate releasing in the coming month.

Assistant Inspector Troy Meyer discusses the 2018 Compendium of Open Office of Inspector General Recommendations to the Department of Defense with Federal News Radio. Click here.

This Lead Inspector General (Lead IG) report to the United States Congress on Operation Freedom’s Sentinel (OFS) is the 13th quarterly report detailing the overseas contingency operation. The report summarizes significant events involving OFS and describes completed, ongoing, and planned Lead IG and partner agency oversight work. This report covers the period from April 1, 2018, to June 30, 2018.

This Lead Inspector General (Lead IG) report to the United States Congress is the 14th report on Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR), the overseas contingency operation to combat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and the 3rd report on Operation Pacific Eagle-Philippines (OPE-P) to support the Philippine government’s fight against ISIS affiliates and other terrorist organizations.

This report is a result of Project No. D2018-D000FP-0116.000.

We determined whether the Armed Forces Retirement Home support functions operated in accordance with applicable Federal standards.

We determined whether DoD Components reported accurate information technology system data in the SECRET Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNET) Information Technology Registry (SITR).

We determined whether the Military Sealift Command (MSC) ensured that Government-owned, contractor-operated (GOCO) prepositioning ships received the required maintenance.

We determined whether the Army and Marine Corps maintained and stored prepositioned stock in accordance with established maintenance schedules and storage requirements in the U.S. European Command area of responsibility.

Federal prosecutors today charged the vice president of sales for Northside Pharmacy, a Haleyville, Ala.-based compounding pharmacy doing business as Global Compounding Pharmacy, with participating in a conspiracy to generate prescriptions and defraud health care insurers and prescription drug administrators out of tens of millions of dollars.

United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama annonces today that Senior United States District Judge Callie V.S. Granade sentenced former United states Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Christopher Aragon, 32, a resident of Mobile, Alabama, to 33 months imprisonment for conspiring with his wife, co-defendant Teneshia Aragon, and co-defendent Dana Davis to commit wire fraud.

Marco Bisa Hawkins Moran, 45, of Raymond, pled guilty Thursday before U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to a Criminal Information outlining his role in a more than $22 million dollar scheme to defraud TRICARE, the health care benefit program serving our nation's military, veterans, and their respective family members, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze, IRS-Criminal Investigation Acting Special Agent in Charge Thomas Jay Holloman, III, and Special Agent in Charge John F. Khin of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service's Southeast Field Office.