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Independent Fed Inspector General assigned to CFPB investigating administration’s actions at the CFPB

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The independent Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Federal Reserve System (FRS) and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is investigating the bureau’s workforce reductions and its canceled contracts, according...more

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Weekly COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report - March 2021 #3

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On March 15, the SBA Office of the Inspector General published a report identifying $692 million in duplicate PPP loans. This confirmed earlier findings made by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis in...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Biden Time: "Divisive" Training Ok, OSHA "Not Protective," Independent Contractor Regs Paused

And that's not all! Nail in the coffin for Trump Order on "divisive" training. In January, President Biden signed an Executive Order that revoked Trump Executive Order 13950. As Cara Crotty has written, the Trump E.O....more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Federal, DHS Succession Rules Were Not Complied With To Fill Agency’s Top Positions, GAO Reports

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A recent non-binding report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found the appointments of Kevin McAleenan and Chad Wolf (both as “acting” DHS Secretaries) and Ken Cuccinelli (senior official performing the duties of...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

President Trump announces nominee for HHS inspector general

Compliance Today (July 2020) - The White House announced its nominee for the inspector general role at the Department of Health & Human Services late Friday, May 1. The announcement came after Christi A. Grimm, the current...more

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OFCCP Director Craig Leen Participates In Virtual Confirmation Hearing For Inspector General Role

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So, it has begun. The confirmation process for now OFCCP Director Craig Leen‘s move out of OFCCP and into the Inspector General of Office of Personnel Management initiated with a hearing before the full committed of the...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

COVID-19 Update: Meet the Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery

The Senate Banking Committee reconvened in person and by video on Tuesday, May 5, 2020, to hold a hearing on President Trump’s nomination of Brian D. Miller to serve as the Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery...more

King & Spalding

Commerce IG Criticizes The Exclusion Process For National Security Tariffs On Steel And Aluminum

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On October 28, 2019, the Commerce Department’s Office of the Inspector General (the “Office” or “OIG”) issued a memorandum to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross to communicate the Office’s concerns about the process for...more

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Impeachment Ignited: How the Process Will Unfold

Article II, Sec. 4 of the U.S. Constitution states that a president, vice president or any other civil officer can be removed from office if he or she has committed “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

DoD IG Report Highlights Flaws in DLA Compliance with Buy American Act and Berry Amendment

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A recent report from the Department of Defense (DoD) Inspector General (IG) identified a number of significant flaws regarding the Defense Logistics Agency’s (DLA) compliance with the Buy American Act (BAA) and the Berry...more

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Five Washington Realities for President Trump’s Consideration

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Last week, we published an op-ed, “Here are Five things President Trump can't change,” in The Hill discussing long-established and irrevocable rules of how D.C. works that Trump and his team need to factor into their thought...more

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