Inspector General Robert P. Storch announced today that the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General released the “Management Advisory: Audit of Remote Maintenance and Distribution Cell–Ukraine Restructuring Contract Invoice Oversight.”

Inspector General Robert P. Storch announced today that the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) released “Management Advisory: Non-DoD Solid Waste Burning At or Near DoD-Occupied Sites,” to bring immediate attention and resolution to a health and safety issue that could impact DoD personnel.

Inspector General Robert P. Storch announced today that the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General released the “Audit of the DoD’s Development and Maintenance of the Digital Modernization Strategy.” The audit objective was to assess whether the DoD Chief Information Officer (CIO) complied with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular No. A-130 requirements for the development and maintenance of the DoD’s Digital Modernization Strategy (DMS).

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This report contains classified information and no redacted version is available. To file a Freedom of Information Act Request, please submit a request to FOIA.gov.

This management advisory provides the results of the DoD Office of Inspector General’s audit. During our audit of Remote Maintenance and Distribution Cell–Ukraine Restructuring Contract (D2023-D000AX-0116.000), we identified issues that resulted in multiple improper payments. In addition, we found that the contracting officer waived the COR review and approval of invoices as well as relied on the Defense Contract Audit Agency’s closeout audits, which primarily focus on indirect cost rates and not on whether invoiced amounts were allowable, allocable, or reasonable.

Guardant Health, Inc., a precision oncology company based in Palo Alto, has agreed to settle allegations that it knowingly violated the False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-31, and regulations of the Defense Health Agency (DHA), announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG) Acting Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey McIntosh, and Department of Defense Office of Inspector General, Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), Western Field Office, Special Agent in Charge Bryan D. Denny.

A Texas pharmaceutical marketer was sentenced today to two years and five months in prison and ordered to pay over $59 million in restitution for conspiring to defraud the United States, receiving illegal kickbacks in exchange for compounded medications prescription referrals, and money laundering.

John Oxendine, the former Georgia Insurance Commissioner, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud in connection with unnecessary lab testing.