Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency

biometric security, Pandemic, fraud, PRAC

Public sector benefits are a fraudster’s playground: Here’s how biometric security can help

As generative AI technology has become more sophisticated and accessible, creating and deploying fake identities is now easier than ever.

Commentary

FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2019, file photo, a man uses a cell phone in New Orleans. The U.S. communications regulator on Tuesday, June 9, 2020, proposed a $225 million fine, its largest ever, against two health insurance telemarketers for spamming people with 1 billion robocalls using fake phone numbers. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Scammers impersonate federal watchdog in ‘money-laundering’ calls

Federal Newscast

Amelia Brust/Federal News Network

Lead pandemic watchdog urges lawmakers to extend COVID anti-fraud tool to all federal spending

Agency Oversight

GAO

Rebecca Shea, Government Accountability Office

Everybody expected this train wreck, but that doesn’t make it any prettier

People

Two agency inspectors general got salaries that busted legal limits on political employee pay

Intelligence Community

(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

FILE - In this April 5, 2009 file photo, the Department of Health and Human Services building is seen in Washington. A government audit finds that more than 1 in 4 cases of possible sexual and physical abuse against nursing home patients apparently went unreported to police. The Health and Human Services inspector general's office faults Medicare for failing to enforce a federal law that requires nursing homes to immediately notify police. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

The Council of Inspectors General honors one of its own

People

GSA

Housing and Urban Development’s inspector general has a long list of concerns

Agency Oversight

OIG investigations face challenge of both too little and too much data

Technology

Inspectors general? They’re pussycats!

Career managers can turn inspectors general into allies, not enemies.

Federal Report

Rep. Connolly: Select pandemic committee not ‘a substitute for regular oversight’

Congress has approved nearly $3 trillion to keep government services and the economy running during the coronavirus pandemic, but standing up the layers…

Agency Oversight

Glenn Fine, inspector general, Defense Department

Trump’s watchdog shakeup underscores legal limits for IG independence

Agency Oversight

The pandemic board will oversee more than $2 trillion in spending, but recent shakeups in its leadership raise longstanding questions about the independence of these watchdogs.

Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency

Public sector benefits are a fraudster’s playground: Here’s how biometric security can help

Scammers impersonate federal watchdog in ‘money-laundering’ calls

Lead pandemic watchdog urges lawmakers to extend COVID anti-fraud tool to all federal spending

Everybody expected this train wreck, but that doesn’t make it any prettier

Two agency inspectors general got salaries that busted legal limits on political employee pay

The Council of Inspectors General honors one of its own

Housing and Urban Development’s inspector general has a long list of concerns

OIG investigations face challenge of both too little and too much data

Top challenges for IGs with the new administration

Legislators look to make Oversight.gov a permanent fixture

Treasury clarifies, PRAC is allowed to oversee all CARES Act spending

Inspectors general? They’re pussycats!

Rep. Connolly: Select pandemic committee not ‘a substitute for regular oversight’

Trump’s watchdog shakeup underscores legal limits for IG independence