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The Office of Inspector General performs audits, evaluations, and investigations of the EPA and its contractors to detect an prevent fraud, waste, and abuse. Learn more

Employee Integrity Cases

Summaries of employee integrity investigation cases closed during semiannual reporting periods.

Date Report Title
Mar 31, 2014 Closed Employee Integrity Cases / Oct 1, 2013 - Mar 31, 2014
Sept 30, 2013 Closed Employee Integrity Cases / April 1, 2013 - Sept 30, 2013

Results of Investigations

News releases reporting on the specific results of investigations, including criminal sentencings and convictions. The following links exit the site Exit

2015
Date News Release
Sept 11, 2015 Scientists Sentenced To Prison For Defrauding The Small Business Innovation Research Program
Aug 29, 2015 Edinburg Man Arrested for Making Threats
Aug 12, 2015 HD Supply Waterworks To Pay Nearly $5 Million To Resolve Grant Fraud Allegations 
July 30, 2015 Former EPA Agent Sentenced for Making a False Statement in Connection with Pyramid Scheme
July 1, 2015  Chemical Polluter Convicted in Massive Scheme to Deceive the EPA
May 20, 2015 Nigerian Man Sentenced To Three Years In Prison For Role In Computer Hacking Scheme That Targeted Government Employees
May 14, 2015 Duke Energy Subsidiaries Plead Guilty And Sentenced To Pay $102 Million For Clean Water Act Crimes
Apr 14, 2015 Man Sentenced To 30 Months In Federal Prison For Possessing Over 50,000 Images Of Child Pornography
Apr 10, 2015 Former Executive And Finance Directors Of Alaska Tribal Organization Plead Guilty To Stealing Funds
Mar 23, 2015 Federal Jury Convicts Scientists Of Wire Fraud, Identity Theft, And Obstruction 
Feb 26, 2015 Justice Department Inspector General Commends Montana U.S. Attorney's Guardians Project
Jan 29, 2015 Federal Jury Convicts Former Finance Manager of the Rocky Boy Health Clinic

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2014
Date News Release
Dec 18, 2014 Savannah Man Sentenced On False Statement Charge
Dec 5, 2014 Two Tampa Corporations And Four Tampa Residents Sentenced In Connection With Scheme To Unlawfully Sell An Unregistered Pesticide And Obstruct Justice 
Nov 17, 2014 Canadian Executive Extradited on Major Fraud Charges Involving a New Jersey Environmental Protection Agency Superfund Site
June 10, 2014 Nigerian Man Admits Role In Computer Hacking Scheme That Targeted Government Employees
May 28, 2014 Jett Industries Pays $500,000 To Settle Civil Fraud Allegations
Apr 4, 2014 Co-Owner of New Jersey Industrial Pipes Supply Company Pleads Guilty to Making False Statement in Connection with Superfund Investigation
Mar 4, 2014 Former Project Manager Sentenced to Serve Time in Prison for Role in Bid Rigging and Other Fraudulent Schemes Involving Two EPA Superfund Sites in New Jersey 
Feb 12, 2014 Two Tampa Corporations and Four Tampa Residents Indicted in Scheme to Unlawfully Sell an Unregistered Pesticide and Obstruct Justice 
Jan 8, 2014 Upstate Laboratories Sentenced to probation for 5 years and a $150,000 fine for committing mail fraud 

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2013
Date News Release
Sept 30, 2013 Former Project Manager Convicted For Role In Conspiracy Schemes Involving Two Epa Superfund Sites In New Jersey
Sept 27, 2013 Former EPA Senior Policy Advisor Pleads Guilty To Theft in Scheme That Cost Government Nearly $900,000
Sept 19, 2013 Halliburton Pleads Guilty to Destruction of Evidence in Connection with Deepwater Horizon Disaster and Is Sentenced to Statutory Maximum Fine
Jan 29, 2013 BP Exploration and Production Inc. Pleads Guilty, Is Sentenced to Pay Record $4 Billon for Crimes Surrounding Deepwater Horizon Incident

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2012
Date News Release
Oct 16, 2012 West Palm Beach Company and Owners Charged with Conspiracy to Commit Fraud in Connection with Bogus Septic Tank Products
Sept 13, 2012 Managers of West Palm Beach Septic Tank Products Sentenced for Fraud
June 25, 2012 Owner of "Clean Green Fuel" Convicted of Scheme to Violate EPA Regulations and Sell $9 Million in Fraudulent Renewable Fuel Claims

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2011  
Date News Release
Nov 22, 2011 West Palm Beach Sellers of Unnecessary Septic Tank Products Plead Guilty to Wire Fraud
Oct 6, 2011 Federal Grand Jury Indicts David P. Preston on Wire Fraud Charges
Oct 4, 2011 Former EPA-CID Special Agent in Texas Pleads Guilty to Perjury and Obstruction of Justice
Oct 3, 2011 Owner of Clean Green Fuel Charged in Scheme to Sell Over $9 Million in Fraudulent Renewable Fuel Credits
Sept 20, 2011 Local Contractor Pleads Guilty To Defrauding City Of Sacramento Of Stimulus Funds
Sept 12, 2011 Canadian National Sentenced to Serve 50 Months in Prison for Role in Fraud and Money Laundering Conspiracies Involving New Jersey Environmental Protection Agency at Superfund Site
July 27, 2011 Former EPA-CID Special Agent Charged with Perjury and Obstruction of Justice
June 20, 2011 Boise couple sentenced in federal court for conspiring to defraud the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality of federal grant funds that were to be used to install diesel emission reduction equipment on Idaho school buses
June 1, 2011 New York Man Ordered to Pay Over $400,000 in Restitution and Fines for Role in Kickback Scheme at New Jersey Superfund Sites
May 17, 2011 Hayward Baker Settlement
April 6, 2011 New Jersey Wastewater Treatment and Chemical Supply Company and Owner Sentence for Their Role in Fraud Conspiracy 

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OIG Independence of EPA

The EPA's Office of Inspector General is a part of EPA, although Congress provides our funding separate from the agency, to ensure our independence. We were created pursuant to the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended Exit.

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