Reports

Audit of NPS Grant with Connecticut’s Department of Economic and Community Development

NPS Senior Official Created the Appearance of Using his Public Office for Private Gain

OIG investigated transaction irregularities on a Department of the Interior purchase card assigned to an employee at Nez Perce National Historic Park, National Park Service (NPS). The questionable purchases included a $17,000 charge at a pawn shop, two tuition payments at a local university, and purchases that appeared to have been structured to circumvent the micro purchase limit. We confirmed that the employee purchased art for the park museum from a pawn shop for $17,000 and, at the direction of a supervisor, made tuition payments for other employees on the DOI purchase card.

The U.S. National Park Service is managing its Centennial Challenge funds appropriately.