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ARRA Job Data Reporting for FAA Programs—Lessons Learned for Improving Accuracy and Transparency for Future Job Reporting

02.10.2012

On February 10, 2012, we issued a report on job reporting for Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) programs funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). We conducted our review at the request of the Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. We found that FAA met the ARRA requirement to provide reports on job data, and we noted improvements in overall reporting of job...
Pennsylvania Trucking Firm and Owner Charged with Criminal Conspiracy

02.06.2012

On February 6, 2012, D.A. Landis Trucking, Inc., a Lancaster, Pennsylvania company, and its owner Dean A. Landis, age 45, of Willow Street, Pennsylvania, were charged by Information in the U.S. District Court, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on criminal charges of conspiracy and making false statements. The information alleged that Landis directed at least ten D.A. Landis Trucking, Inc., commercial truck drivers to prepare and...
South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicle Employee Pleads Guilty Related to Issuance of Fraudulent Commercial Driver's Licenses

02.02.2012

On February 2, 2012, in U.S. District Court, Columbia, South Carolina, Brenda Kay Poston, a former South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles (SCDMV) Customer Service Representative, pled guilty to a five count indictment charging her with making false statements related to a scheme which resulted in the issuance of Commercial Driver Licenses (CDL) to unqualified applicants. This investigation was predicated as a result of...
Concrete Companies Sentenced for Conspiring to Manipulate the Ready-Mix Concrete Market

02.02.2012

On February 2, 2012, GCC Alliance Concrete (GCC), Great Lakes Concrete, and Tri-State Ready-Mix were sentenced in U.S. District Court, Sioux Falls, Iowa, for Sherman Act violations involving a scheme to manipulate the ready-mix concrete market via rigged bids and territorial allocations for ready-mix concrete sold in Iowa. On the following day, February 3, 2012, VS Holdings Company was sentenced for their involvement in this...
Audit Initiated to Follow-up on FAA's ATCOTS Contract Challenges

02.07.2012

At the request of Senator Claire McCaskill, Chairwoman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight, the Office of Inspector General plans to conduct a follow-up review of the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Air Traffic Control Optimum Training Solution (ATCOTS) contract. In 2008, FAA awarded the $859-million ATCOTS contract intended to provide up to 10 years...

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