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Swamp Drainage: I was quietly optimistic about POTUS’s required audits I saw at the whitehouse.gov website several months ago. It looked like POTUS would be able to compare status of various departments during the Obama administration (Sept. 2016) to that of his (Sept. 2017). I saw the Treasury Dept. was to be audited and hoped they would detect the mass distribution of funds to other nations on pallets in cargo planes (looking at you, Obama). But I never heard anything else about it...until now.

Today, I came across an interesting short little video (5 minutes) regarding arrests we generally don’t hear about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Rc4h2OiF0
You may prefer the text form of the content at the website:
https://americandigitalnews.com/2018/08/31/oig-semiannual-audit-results/#.W5Q_-_ZFy01

Following details from report compiled by Lisa Evans Rockwell.

Oct 1 2017 through March 31 2018, the IG was auditing the US Treasury (semi-annual audit). Another such audit is ongoing now.

The first audit (Office of Investigations) resulted in 33 arrests, 35 indictments, and 21 convictions.
The US Mint was audited: Deep Storage Gold and Silver Reserves as of September 30, 2017 and 2016 (OIG-18-003, 10/24/17).

The Department of the Treasuries Schedules of US gold reserves held by Federal Reserve Banks as of September 30, 2017 and 2016. There’s more in Treasury audit report (e.g., 37 million in Treasury Checks stolen from the US Postal Service) and the Agriculture Dept. audit is no sleeper either (eg., one convenience store trafficked 3.4 million dollars in food stamps in one year) and the Office of Investigations reported 217 arrests, 280 indictments and 272 convictions.

There a crop insurance report, and a USDA report as well (e.g., individuals “received more than $165 million in set-aside contracts to which they were not entitled received more than $165 million in set-aside contracts to which they were not entitled”).

The IG referred a “senior staff member” (Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin) at a Treasury bureau to the DOJ for investigation to determine if he released information regarding the existence of a DOJ and Treasury OIG investigation.

There are links to some of the reports, the Ag audit report is longer at around 147 pages or so. I’ve only skimmed them but they look promising; we knew it was a swamp, it’s nice to see a few reports detailing a little of what has been going on to drain it.