Category: Office of the Inspector General

Biden Official a No-Show for Hearing on $200 Billion in Pandemic Relief Fraud

Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Isabella Guzman declined to testify at the July 13 House Small Business Committee hearing seeking to understand why her staff found $160 billion less waste and fraud in $1.2 trillion in federal pandemic spending than did the agency’s internal watchdog. Rep. Roger Williams (R-Texas), the House panel’s chairman, said in…


Biden’s Policy on Private Prisons Produced Higher Costs, Less Control: DOJ Inspector General Report

A Biden administration policy to end federal contracts with private prisons is having the opposite of its intended effect, according to a new report from the office of Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz. Signed during President Joe Biden’s first week in office on Jan. 26, 2021, the executive order on “Reforming Our…


DOJ Internal Misconduct Shrouded in Veil of Secrecy

Commentary Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz was busy last week, releasing three separate reports on Monday alone. Each detailed misconduct by a different assistant U.S. attorney: One finds a federal lawyer trying to use his position to avoid a drunk driving charge; another finds a government attorney getting drunk and physically belligerent at a meeting with foreign…