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Our Latest Organizational Assessment Is Here
The OIG promotes good government through fair, objective, and independent oversight. Read highlights of some of our most significant accomplishments in the past year.
Audits, Inspections, and Evaluations Oversight Plan for 2026
Using a risk-based, tiered approach in developing this work plan to best focus our resources, AIE will initiate work in nine risk areas in 2026, including oversight of supplemental funding provided to DOI.
Semiannual Report to Congress
This report highlights OIG’s work from April 1, 2025, to September 30, 2025.
Whistleblower Protection
Federal laws protect whistleblowers from reprisal for disclosing waste, fraud, abuse, and danger to public health and safety. Learn more about whistleblower protections for DOI employees, contractors, and grantees, as well as how to file a whistleblower reprisal complaint.
Infrastructure Oversight
Congress provided more than $34 billion to U.S. Department of the Interior programs through the Infrastructure, Investment, and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The IIJA and IRA also provided resources to this office.
With fair, objective, and independent oversight, we are helping to safeguard these funds from fraud, waste, and abuse.
RECENT REPORTS
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Read our latest report to Congress highlighting OIG’s successful work from April 1, 2025, to September 30, 2025.
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We substantiated allegations that an operator placed safety systems in bypass and did not immediately notify BSEE of the subsequent oil discharge…
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We found that an employee with a food service contractor stole money from an FWS training center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
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Using a risk-based, tiered approach in developing this work plan to best focus our resources, AIE will initiate work in nine risk areas in 2026,…
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We found a former employee violated ethics regulations, DOI Policy and the law through misuse of official time and property and other misconduct…
Issue Areas
Congress provided the OIG almost $100 million in the Infrastructure, Investment, and Jobs Act (IIJA) and $10 million in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to oversee the DOI’s management of these funds. Learn how we are helping to safeguard these funds from fraud, waste, and abuse.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian Education provide services to 574 federally recognized tribes with a population of about 1.9 million American Indians and Alaska Natives. OIG oversight helps prevent fraud and mismanagement that diverts funds from those in need.
DOI has significant financial assets, including contracts, financial assistance awards (grants and cooperative agreements), property, and other resources. Within this broad area, we prioritize oversight work on grants and contracts, CARES Act, and spending under the Great American Outdoors Act.
OIG In The News
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SHERMAN, Texas – A McKinney man has been sentenced to over 24 years in federal prison in a COVID - fraud conspiracy in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jay R. Combs.
Olamide Olatayo Bello was found guilty at trial to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering and was sentenced to 293 months in federal prison by U.S. District…
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