Inspector General Robert P. Storch announced today that the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) released the “Management Advisory: Timeliness of Public Financial Disclosure Reports of Senior DoD Officials.” The DoD OIG reviewed more than 15,000 public financial disclosure reports of senior executive branch employees from across 15 DoD Designated Agency Ethics Offices to determine whether the reports were submitted and reviewed in a timely manner.

Inspector General Robert P. Storch announced today that the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) released the report, “Whistleblower Reprisal Investigation: Navy Cyberwarfare Development Group, Fort Meade, Maryland.” The DoD OIG substantiated the allegation of reprisal in this case.

Inspector General Robert P. Storch announced today that the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) released the “Audit of DoD Maintenance of Military Equipment Provided in Support of Ukraine.” The audit aimed to determine the extent to which DoD performed maintenance support for U.S. military equipment provided to Ukraine, focusing on maintenance support performed at the Remote Maintenance and Distribution Cell–Ukraine (RDC-U).

This report contains classified information and no redacted version is available. To file a Freedom of Information Act Request, please submit a request to FOIA.gov.

The DoD Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) conducted this investigation in response to a reprisal complaint alleging that (the Subject), U.S. Navy, Fort Meade, Maryland, took an action affecting the eligibility for access to classified information against (the Complainant), U.S. Navy, in reprisal for the Complainant making protected disclosures.

This final management advisory provides the results of the DoD Office of Inspector General’s review of the timeliness of public financial disclosure reports of senior DoD officials filed from January 1, 2022, through July 31, 2023. This is the first of two products that will be issued as part of the Audit of Senior DoD Officials Public Financial Disclosures that was announced on July 10, 2023. The objective of the audit is to determine whether public financial disclosure reports of senior DoD officials were submitted and reviewed in a timely manner, which is addressed in this management advisory.

Dr. Eric Troyer, of Landis, North Carolina, and his medical practice, Troyer Medical Inc. P.C. (TMI), have agreed to pay $429,254 to the United States to resolve alleged False Claims Act violations arising from their involvement in laboratory kickback schemes. Troyer and TMI will pay an additional $195,746 to the State of North Carolina, which jointly funded claims paid by the North Carolina Medicaid program. Troyer and his practice have agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department’s investigations of other participants in the alleged schemes.

Jacob Liticker, 27, of Houston, Texas was sentenced to two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Liticker was charged in the District of South Carolina for his role in a national fraud scheme related to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress authorized the PPP program to provide emergency economic relief to businesses suffering economic harm during and as a result of the pandemic.

Precision Toxicology, doing business as Precision Diagnostics, has agreed to pay $27 million to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act and similar state statutes for billing Medicare, Medicaid and other federal health care programs for medically unnecessary urine drug tests, and for providing free items to physicians who agreed to refer expensive laboratory testing business to Precision. Precision, headquartered in San Diego, is one of the nation’s largest urine drug testing laboratories.