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  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Move immediately to require all CMS contractors to submit electronic claims.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Ensure those claims are properly analyzed and maintained by BOP's adjudication vendor.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Enforce existing contract language that requires the adjudication vendor to perform fraud analytics and report any indicators of fraud to the BOP.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Ensure that the adjudication vendor is able to reproduce on demand all necessary data elements used to adjudicate the claims (e.g., DRG, all procedure codes, and drug information). The universe of claims data should be available to BOP on a national scale in a format that allows for thorough analysis and oversight regardless of institution.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Conduct a comprehensive review of U.S. Penitentiary Lewisburg's Special Management Unit that addresses the staffing, treatment, conditions of confinement, and performance metrics of the program.
  • Resolved
    Other Component
    Determine whether revisions to the post-shooting incident procedures should be made across the Department's law enforcement components to address the issue of shooting incidents outside the United States by a foreign LEO working on a joint law enforcement operation with a DOJ component. We also recommend that the Deputy Attorney General consider whether revisions to the components' post-shooting incident procedures should be made to ensure that the requirements are appropriate and consistent across the Department's law enforcement components.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    $10,720,232
    Remedy $10,720,232 in unallowable costs awarded to the Nisqually Tribe to fund a correctional facility that was not funded or used in conformity with the statutory authority of the TJSIP, and that was inappropriately built with the intention of being a profit-generating facility.
  • Response Not Yet Due
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Continue to pursue ways to make the business records process more efficient, particularly for applications related to cyber cases.
  • Resolved
    Other Component
    Promptly design and implement a plan that ensures that its law enforcement and detention components comply with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Improve the collection and analysis of utilization data for inmate medical care to better understand the services that inmates need and the impact it has on the BOP's medical spending.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Revise and update CPD 0465D, including prohibiting FBIRA Board Members from using personal financial instruments or accounts in connection with FBIRAs, clearly delineating permissible and impermissible uses of FBIRA resources, and requiring accountability for RA funds.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Provide appropriate training and guidance to FBIRA directors and FBI Field Division managers.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    $244,233
    Remedy $244,233 in unsupported grant funds.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    [Description omitted; DOJ has determined that this recommendation contains information that is limited official use or classified.]
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    [Description omitted; DOJ has determined that this recommendation contains information that is limited official use or classified.]
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    $32,034,623
    Remedy $32,034,623 in unallowable expenditures associated with excessive building sizes for Grant Numbers 2009-ST-B9-0089 and 2009-ST-B9-0100.
  • Resolved
    Other Component
    Ensure that the Department's zero tolerance policy on sexual harassment is enforced in the law enforcement components and that the components' tables of offenses and penalties are complimentary and consistent with respect to sexual harassment.
  • Resolved
    Other Component
    All four law enforcement components, in coordination with ODAG, should acquire and implement technology and establish procedures to effectively preserve text messages and images for a reasonable period of time, and components should make this information available to misconduct investigators and, as appropriate, for discovery purposes.
  • Resolved
    Other Component
    All four law enforcement components, in coordination with ODAG, should take concrete steps to acquire and implement technology to be able to, as appropriate in the circumstances, proactively monitor text message and image data for potential misconduct.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Review the policies and procedures of its other law enforcement components to ensure that they are sufficient to address the concerns we have identified in the conduct of Operations Wide Receiver and Fast and Furious, particularly regarding oversight of sensitive and major cases, the authorization and oversight of "otherwise illegal activity," and the use of informants in situations where the law enforcement component also has a regulatory function.
  • On Hold/Pending with OIG
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Establish Procedures to Track Source of Facts Provided to the Public and Congress.
  • On Hold/Pending with OIG
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Require Identification of Federal Crime as Part of Documenting Predication.
  • On Hold/Pending with OIG
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Consider Revising Attorney General's Guidelines and DIOG to Reinstate Prohibition on Retention of Irrelevant First Amendment Material from Public Events.
  • On Hold/Pending with OIG
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Clarify When First Amendment Cases Should Be Classified as "Acts of Terrorism" Matters.
  • On Hold/Pending with OIG
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Assess its discovery obligations regarding Stellar Wind-derived information in international terrorism prosecutions.
  • On Hold/Pending with OIG
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Carefully consider whether it must re-examine past cases to see whether potentially discoverable but undisclosed Rule 16 or Brady material was collected by the NSA under the program, and take appropriate steps to ensure that it has complied with its discovery obligations in such cases.
  • On Hold/Pending with OIG
    Other Component
    As part of the [Redacted] project, the Justice Department's National Security Division (NSD), working with the FBI, should collect information about the quantity of telephone numbers and e-mail addresses disseminated to FBI field offices that are assigned as Action leads and that require offices to conduct threat assessments.
  • On Hold/Pending with OIG
    Other Component
    Consistent with NSD's current oversight activities and as part of its periodic reviews of national security investigations at FBI Headquarters and field offices, NSD should review a representative sampling [Redacted] leads to those offices.
  • On Hold/Pending with OIG
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    In coordination with the NSA, implement a procedure to identify Stellar Wind-derived information that may be associated with international terrorism cases currently pending or likely to be brought in the future and evaluate whether such information should be disclosed in light of the government's discovery obligations under Rule 16 and Brady.
  • On Hold/Pending with OIG
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Continue its FBI Headquarters-managed asset validation review process and provide sufficient resources for the Analytical Unit to devote to these reviews.