Last week, James Ives, the Principal Deputy Director for the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), led a team of DCIS investigators to Poland as part of the DoD OIG’s proactive efforts to assess potential fraud vulnerabilities related to Ukraine assistance. Poland currently serves as a hub for the transfer of foreign military equipment and supplies to the Ukrainian government.

This Oversight Update provides an overview of the DoD OIG’s recent activities related to oversight of DoD support to Ukraine.

This week, Acting DoD Inspector General Sean O’Donnell led a team of DoD OIG personnel to visit U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. During the trip, the DoD OIG team met with Command leadership to discuss challenges in their theater of operations and the impact of support to Ukraine. These insights will inform the DoD OIG’s continuous planning for targeted oversight.

This report is Classified. To file a Freedom of Information Act request, please submit a request to FOIA Online.

Publicly Released: September 22, 2022

The purpose of this management advisory is to inform Congress and DoD leadership on the status of the Audit of the Navy’s Accelerated Promotion Programs.

We plan to begin the subject audit in September 2022. The objective of this audit is to perform test procedures of the reporting of Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) F-35 assets in the Defense Property Accountability System and determine the progress made by the JSF Joint Program Office to remediate material weaknesses and conditions identified by the DoD Agency Wide Financial Statement audit. We will perform test procedures as part of the DoD Agency-Wide Financial Statements audit.

A Parkville, Mo., man who was charged in two federal cases was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a $335 million scheme to defraud federal programs that award contracts to firms owned by minorities, veterans, and service-disabled veterans, and in a separate case to filing false tax returns that cheated the government out of more than $615,000 in taxes owed.

A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments yesterday. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.

A resident of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, pleaded guilty in federal court to three counts of conspiracy related to the submission of fraudulent health care claims, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.