Enforcement
False Claims Act settlements, suspensions and debarments, and procurement fraud enforcement.
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Enforcement
Ex-Census Manager Gets Prison in $790K Kickback Case
A former U.S. Census Bureau program manager, Camille T. Jones, was sentenced to two years in prison for steering an employee assistance contract to a relative's firm for roughly $790,000 in kickbacks, then backdating a document to hide the payments.
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Enforcement
Redi-Bag USA and CEO Pay $7.3M in Customs Fraud Settlement
New York Packaging II LLC (Redi-Bag USA) and CEO Jeffrey Rabiea will pay $7.3M to settle False Claims Act allegations they relabeled Chinese-made bags as Hong Kong products to evade antidumping duties of up to 77.57 percent. A former sales rep who blew the whistle collects about $1.3M.
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Enforcement
$223,618 SBIR Settlement Over Air Force Work Done in Canada
Advanced Global Services of Orchard Park, NY, Toronto-based Paradigm Shift Technologies, and AGS president Gennady Yumshtyk will pay $223,618 to settle FCA claims that a 2019 Air Force/Navy SBIR award for gun barrel coating was performed in Canada, not the US.
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Enforcement
Capitol Watchdog: Contractors Wrote Manager's Promotion Bid
The Architect of the Capitol's OIG substantiated a July 13, 2026 finding that a GS-15 senior manager had AOC contract personnel draft responses to the Executive Core Qualifications for a promotion. Investigators used e-mails, Teams chats and shared Word files, and confirmed the manager had never served as the contract's COR.
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Enforcement
Ex-ODNI Operations Chief Pays $20K Over Cooling-Off Ban
DOJ says Deirdre Walsh, former ODNI Chief Operating Officer, paid $20,000 to resolve allegations she contacted her old agency for a contractor employer on an $18M request for equitable adjustment inside the one-year cooling-off period.
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Enforcement
SEC Watchdog Flags G&A, Overtime Billing on $130M Contract
An SEC OIG management letter issued July 2, 2026 questions $5,463.31 in G&A overcharges, unsupported and unapproved overtime, and unsupported travel on a task order under a $130.2M contract with C2 Alaska, LLC — from a sample of just 9 of 82 invoices. No charges have been filed.
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Enforcement
Former Hinesville Housing Authority Director Indicted in $2.5 Million Fraud Scheme
A federal grand jury indicted ex-Hinesville Housing Authority director Melanie Thompson and contractor Toriono Byrd on wire fraud and kickback charges tied to a scheme that allegedly cost the Georgia housing agency more than $2.5 million from 2019 to 2023.
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Enforcement
Trade Fraud Task Force Tops $1 Billion as DOJ Charges Two Illinois Gold Importers
DOJ says its Trade Fraud Task Force topped $1 billion in recoveries and charged losses in under a year, driven by two Chicago-area gold jewelry import fraud cases, and unveiled a new Global Trade & Commerce Enforcement Section.
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Enforcement
DOJ Forces TransDigm to Abandon $960M Stellant Systems Buy Over Aegis, F-16 Radar Monopoly Fears
DOJ threatened suit over radar-component overlap on Aegis and F-16 programs, and TransDigm withdrew its $960M bid for Stellant Systems rather than fight the block in court.
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Enforcement
VA Watchdog Finds Medical-Records Case System Wrongly Rated 'Low Risk' for Over a Year
VA OIG found the PATS-R patient advocate system was miscategorized as low risk after a 2023 cloud migration, with 77% of users unaware they could access veterans' medical records. VA concurred with all five recommendations and raised the rating to moderate.
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Enforcement
Raytheon's GPS Ground System Cancelled as Space Force Satellite Overruns Hit $11.4B
GAO's July 2026 Weapon Systems Assessment finds $11.4 billion in cost overruns across Space Force satellite programs and confirms the Pentagon quietly cancelled Raytheon's OCX ground-control system for GPS after years of software delays and cost growth.
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Enforcement
Comer Threatens to Strip CIGIE's Watchdog Authority After GAO Finds Years-Long IG Case Delays
House Oversight Chairman James Comer threatened to strip CIGIE of its authority to investigate misconduct by senior inspector general officials after a GAO report found every reviewed investigation missed the 150-day statutory deadline, some by more than three years.
