This Lead Inspector General (Lead IG) report to the United States Congress is the 6th quarterly report on Operation Pacific Eagle-Philippines (OPE-P), the overseas contingency operation to support the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) fight against ISIS affiliates and other terrorist organizations. This report summarizes significant events related to this operation and describes ongoing and planned Lead IG and partner agency oversight work. This report covers the period from January 1, 2019 to March 31, 2019.

This Lead Inspector General (Lead IG) report to the United States Congress on Operation Freedom’s Sentinel (OFS) is the 16th 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 January 1, 2019, to March 31, 2019.

Glenn Fine, the Principal Deputy Inspector General Performing the Duties of the Inspector General, and Theresa Hull, the Assistant Deputy Inspector General for Audit Acquisitions, Contracting and Sustainment, testify before the Committee on Oversight and Reform on “the DOD Inspector General Report on Excess Profits by TransDigm Group, Inc.”

This is one of two reports evaluating the operations and management of military cemeteries under the control of the Military Departments.

This is one of two reports evaluating operations and management of Military Cemeteries under the control of the Military Departments.

We determined to what extent the DoD has prepared to respond to future natural disasters within U.S. Northern Command’s area of responsibility.

Garrett Okubo, 52, of Honolulu, Hawaii, was sentenced today to 42 months of imprisonment for committing health care fraud. As part of his sentence, Okubo must pay $3.7 million in restitution, $3.7 million in forfeiture, and must serve three years of supervised release.

Ten defendants were charged in a 103-count indictment, including a nurse practitioner, and the owners, a pharmacist, managers, sales representatives, and billers, of a Haleyville, Ala.-based pharmacy, Northside Pharmacy doing business as Global Compounding Pharmacy. The indictment charges them with fraudulently billing health care insurers and prescription drug administrators for over $200 million in prescription drugs. In one listed instance, the defendants’ fraudulent conduct caused a prescription plan administrator to pay over $29,000 for one tube of a cream advertised as treating “general wounds.”

U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Toyosi Alatishe, a/k/a Felix Victor Johnson, age 49, of Columbia, Maryland, today to 11 years in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for a conspiracy to commit credit/debit card fraud, wire fraud, and for aggravated identity theft, in connection with two separate schemes to obtain fraudulent tax refunds. Judge Blake entered an order requiring Alatishe to pay restitution in the amount of $2,287,959.67. A federal jury convicted Alatishe on all 16 counts on January 24, 2019.