Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. Quarterly Report and Semiannual Report to the United States Congress
Abstract
This quarter, SIGIR published five audits, including a review of the U.S. military's $370 million effort to pay former insurgents to provide security services through the Sons of Iraq (SOI) program. The military financed the costly SOI initiative using funds from the Commander's Emergency Response Program (CERP). To date, almost $3.7 billion in CERP funds have been committed to projects in Iraq, with the SOI program being the single largest outlay. The Insert to this Quarterly Report contains a comprehensive look at how CERP funds have been expended in Iraq. SIGIR's collective oversight reporting on the CERP is particularly informative, given the continued large-scale use of CERP funds in Afghanistan. Other notable SIGIR accomplishments this quarter include: * completing investigative work that helped result in criminal and civil penalties of $69 million levied against the Louis Berger Group for inflating invoices relating to work it performed for USAID and the Department of Defense * issuing a finding that a $26 million U.S.-funded educational academy for Iraqi officials had not been formally supported by the GOI and that no provisions had been made for the academy's operation and sustainment * determining that a discrepancy exists between the total CERP allocations that U.S. Forces-Iraq reports it received and the amount of CERP funds that the Army Budget Office reports it provided to them.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 30, 2011
- Accession Number
- ADA536790
Entities
Organizations
- Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction