Investigation of Sandra Wells
An inspection of three Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) agency offices found record keeping in two of those offices to be flawed. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) reviewed record-keeping practices at the Southern Ute, Fort Berthold, and the Uintah & Ouray Agencies.
The Office of Inspector (OIG) conducted a follow-up inspection of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) leasing program after the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) found that the Bureau had not followed GSA's leasing requirements.
We initiated this investigation in December 2012 after receiving a complaint from the legal team of a former BP contractor who filed a False Claims Act lawsuit against BP in 2009.
We investigated allegations that the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) pressured contractors to lower an estimate they had made of potential job losses associated with a proposed rule to protect streams located near coal mines, and that OSM ended the contract because the
At the request of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM), the Office of Inspector General completed an inspection of the United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds (UMWAF) to review concerns expressed by OSM about increasing administrative costs.