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Reports

Verification Review of Recommendations 1, 3, 4, and 5 from the Report Titled “U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Management of Oil and Gas Activities on Refuges” (CR-EV-FWS-0002-2014)

Report Number
2018-EAU-029

We completed a verification review of Recommendations 1, 3, 4, and 5, presented in our evaluation report, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Management of Oil and Gas Activities on Refuges (CR-EV-FWS-0002-2014), issued March 1, 2015. Our objective for this review was to determine whether the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service implemented Recommendations 1, 3, 4, and 5 in the evaluation as reported to the Office of Financial Management, Office of Policy, Management and Budget. We concur that these four recommendations have been resolved and closed.

Other
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

United States

Unfounded Allegations of Bias and False Statements by USBR Employees

Report Number
12-0195

The OIG investigated allegations that a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) review of its own failures in oversight of a Federal grant was biased and that USBR or Office of the Solicitor employees made false statements during our initial investigation of the grant. We did not find any evidence that USBR’s review was biased or that employees made false statements.

Investigation
Bureau of Reclamation

United States

Offshore Platform Workers Sentenced for Pollution

Report Number
16-0003

OIG investigated allegations that offshore oil and gas company employees and contractors illegally discharged oil into the Gulf of Mexico. We determined offshore workers Luke Ball, Darryl Plaisance, and William Smith intentionally discharged oil into the Gulf while operating aboard a platform located on a Federal lease. All three individuals were criminally charged by a Federal grand jury in the Western District of Louisiana. Ball and Plaisance pled guilty to making a knowing discharge of a pollutant, and Smith pled guilty to making a negligent discharge of a pollutant into the Gulf.

Investigation
Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement

United States

BLM Law Enforcement Unable to Account for Gift Cards

Report Number
17-0820

The OIG initiated an investigation after an inventory of a safe located in the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) Office of Law Enforcement and Security (OLES), found that thousands of dollars in gift cards were unaccounted for. We found 119 gift cards in the safe, valued at $2,345, and property receipts that indicated more than $10,000 in gift cards had been provided to a former OLES official and another BLM employee to use towards official purchases.

Investigation
Bureau of Land Management

United States

New Mexico Contractor Pleads Guilty to Falsifying a Bond and to Tax Evasion

Report Number
14-0699

OIG investigated allegations that Joseph Dubois filed a fraudulent surety bond to secure a contract at the Pine Hill School, Ramah Chapter of the Navajo Nation, NM. We found that the Ramah Navajo School Board contracted Dubois to renovate a building at the Pine Hill School. The contracts required him to obtain and provide a surety bond, but instead Dubois produced a fictitious surety bond that falsely appeared to be under the authority of a legitimate surety company. Dubois pled guilty to passing fictitious obligations and to tax evasion in U.S.

Investigation
Bureau of Indian Affairs

, NM, United States

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