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HUD OIG is reviewing a housing authority in New Jersey.  The authority owns and manages public housing units for low-income families, and conducts administrative functions for other housing agencies under interagency agreements.  The review objective is to determine whether the authority administered its operating and capital funds, as well as funds received under interagency agreements, in accordance with applicable requirements.

HUD OIG is reviewing a housing authority in New Jersey.  The authority owns and manages public housing units to serve low-income families and was designated as troubled by HUD in 2018 for its operating fund.  The review objective is to determine whether the authority administered its operating funds in accordance with applicable requirements.

HUD OIG is reviewing an Ohio Housing Authority’s public housing program.  The Authority received more than $8.3 million in operating subsidies and more than $5.7 million in Capital Fund grants in fiscal year 2018. The audit objective is to determine whether the Authority complied with Federal and its own requirements for procuring services and disbursing program funds.  

HUD OIG is reviewing a housing authority in New Jersey.  The authority owns and manages public housing units to serve low-income families and was designated as high risk by HUD in 2017.  The review objective is to determine whether the Authority administered its Public Housing program in accordance with applicable requirements.  

The owner of hundreds of rental units scattered across 18 residential properties in Elizabeth has been arrested and criminally charged with coercing more than a dozen of his tenants into sexual acts in exchange for financial relief, acting Union County Prosecutor Lyndsay V. Ruotolo and Elizabeth Police Department Chief Giacomo Sacca and Director Earl Graves jointly announced Monday.

NEWARK, N.J. – An Essex County, New Jersey, man will be arraigned today on charges that he engaged in a conspiracy to commit mortgage fraud that resulted in potential losses in excess of $1 million, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.

Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ALICIA GARDNER, 51, of Griswold, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to embezzling money from federally subsidized housing complexes that she had managed.

BOSTON – The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today a $7,000 settlement with 44 Hawthorne, LLC and its owner, Alek Vienneau, to resolve allegations that they submitted false claims to the federal government after receiving impermissible excess rent payments from a low income tenant while participating in a federal housing subsidy program.