“”Inspectors General are generally responsible for annually auditing the financial statements for their respective agencies.””
Excerpt from my prior post - this is what’s wrong - well, ONE of the many things that are wrong. ANNUAL AUDIT by IG’s...They have always been a day late and a dollar short - Always closing the barn door after the horse has been stolen. How about AUDIT as you go? Catch it as it’s happening?
Kind of like having an employee stealing from a business - you know it, watch it for 12 months, let it continue and then FIRE THEM or prosecute them for theft! That’s all the IG’s do in any of the agencies.
I say IG’s are a total waste of our money!!!! I have said often - USELESS!
“”let it continue and then FIRE THEM or prosecute them for theft!””
Forgot - OR WRITE A REPORT ABOUT IT....One thing we do know - IG’s do know how to write reports!
This is one of the problems with governing by continuing resolution. It should be easy to tell an agency that because you had $X of improper payments your budget will be reduced by between 50% and 100% of X. The agencies would very quickly get the fraud under control if they actually paid a price for tolerating it. This however requires the appropriating committees to actually look farther than the top line amounts.