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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)'s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) published on Thursday two reports broadly alleging that mortgage servicers and Mr. Cooper in particular did not meet HUD requirements for providing loss mitigation options to borrowers with delinquent loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).

An audit by the Chicago Office of the Inspector General found that the city's Department of Public Health doesn't fully enforce a recycling ordinance related to construction and demolition debris.The complete findings were released Wednesday and included recommendations from the city's watchdog agency for the Department of Public Health.

The watchdog for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) says an audit discovered that the temporary policy for endorsement of loans with COVID-19 forbearance activity had multiple compliance issues.The Office of Inspector General for HUD said the department should improve two major areas ensuring lenders follow the outlined policy, and improving its records regarding indemnification agreements, according to a report released on Monday.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)'s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has determined that the FHFA has followed guidance related to conservatorship of the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs).However, staff turnover and pervasive record keeping issues have caused a loss of critical documentation, according to a new FHFA OIG report.

In brief A US intelligence boss has asked Congress to reauthorize a controversial set of powers that give snoops warrantless authorization to surveil electronic communications in the name of fighting terrorism and so forth.NSA director General Paul Nakasone told the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board yesterday that the loss of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) would mean American spies would "lose critical insights into the most significant threats to our nation" if allowed to lapse on December 31.

(Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

The testimony was alarming.For more than two weeks, jurors heard about deputy gangs, saw their tattoos and logos, learned about their inking parties and listened to witnesses talk about members' alleged control over the sheriff's station in Compton.At one point, a deputy pulled up a pant leg to reveal a tattoo of a flaming skeleton gripping a rifle.

(Ringo Chiu / Los Angeles Times)

In an apparent shift from her sworn statements to the Civilian Oversight Commission last year, Undersheriff April Tardy testified during a civil trial Tuesday there was no confirmed work slowdown led by deputy gangs at the Compton sheriff's station in 2019."The information that I had regarding the work slowdown was all allegations," she told the court this week.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's first inspector general for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, who was hired in the wake of a massive contracting and legal scandal at the utility, is leaving after just seven months.Sergio Perez is stepping down next week to join the L.A. city controller's office, Perez confirmed Thursday.

The Los Angeles Police Department's inspector general will oversee an investigation into how at least one LAPD official became involved in a scheme to cover up sexual abuse allegations by former CBS Corp. chief Leslie Moonves.The civilian Police Commission directed its independent watchdog, Inspector General Mark Smith, to monitor and help guide the LAPD's inquiry at its meeting Tuesday.

The so-called documentary transfer tax would generate an estimated $600 million to $1.1 billion a year, according to a city analysis, and the proceeds would fund affordable housing construction, rental subsidies and tenant defense, among other things.Roughly a quarter of the tax's proceeds would go toward alternate modes of construction and the purchase of existing buildings.

The Senate Intelligence Committee is calling on the CIA Inspector General to initiate an immediate investigation into the agency's alleged mishandling of sexual assault and harassment cases, according to a new letter sent to the watchdog's office.The letter from committee chairman Sen. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, and vice chair Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, which has not been previously reported, was sent on Wednesday, Rubio's office confirmed to CNN.

More than two years after an alleged Russian hacking campaign exposed glaring weakness in US federal defenses, the Department of Homeland Security's cyber agency has not updated a key agency blueprint for maintaining communications in the event of a major hack, the department's inspector general said Monday.

Frustrated with local law enforcement agencies, Los Angeles County transit officials on Thursday rejected their proposals of a new contract to patrol buses and trains and signed off on a plan to explore creating their own police force.The move was a rebuke of local law enforcement that has been the backbone of security for Metro, costing the agency $912 million over the last six years.

(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

The Office of the Inspector General will investigate LAPD Chief Michel Moore and the department's constitutional policing director over the disclosure of photos of thousands of officers, including those who work undercover.At Tuesday's regular meeting of the Police Commission, Moore said he had issued "deep apologies" for the way many officers first learned of the photos, which were released in response to a California Public Records Act request.

The head of the US government watchdog for the war in Afghanistan said Tuesday that while there are a number of things the US could learn from the nearly 20-year conflict in Afghanistan and apply to the war in Ukraine, he's not optimistic that officials will actually do so.I'm not super optimistic that we are going to learn our lessons learning lessons is not in our DNA in the United States, unfortunately, John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, told reporters at a Defense Writers Group event on Tuesday.

Pakistani police have scuffled with supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan as officers arrived outside his home to arrest him for failing to appear in court on graft charges, police and officials said.
he police operation triggered clashes between Mr Khan's supporters and police in the country's major cities.

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Los Angeles Police Department Det.Luke Walden has been charged with a felony after authorities say he tried to buy a gun silencer from China.Authorities began an investigation into Walden after U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents intercepted a package from China that contained an illegal firearm silencer in April 2021, the department said in a release.

"Shots fired, shots fired, more cars, send everyone," a breathless Officer Alec Iurato said, according to a segment of body camera footage released Sunday.In Iurato's body camera footage, he can be heard breathing heavily and exclaiming in pain as he makes his way around the house.The two slain officers' body camera footage has not been released, and the segment from Iurato's camera does not show the ambush.

US government investigators have been demanding and receiving millions of money-transfer records from Western Union and similar outfits.Now US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) wants an investigation into this bulk financial surveillance.Wyden in a January 18 letter [PDF] asked the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General (DOJ-OIG) to investigate the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) relationship with the Transaction Record Analysis Center (TRAC), a non-profit apparently set up by the Arizona Attorney General that provides federal, state, and local government agencies with money transfer records.

A Utah plastic surgeon and three of his associates are facing federal charges for a year-long scheme in which they allegedly squirted around 2,000 vaccine doses down the drain, sold falsified vaccination cards for $50 each, and tricked kids into thinking they were vaccinated against COVID-19 by injecting them with saline, collectively, 391 times.

A Brooklyn judge accused of making racist and homophobic remarks about court workers, fellow judges and others has agreed to give up her seat on the bench, officials said on Monday.The judge, Harriet L. Thompson of Brooklyn Surrogate's Court, was set to face a misconduct hearing next week.In a legal filing, a top New York judge wrote that Judge Thompson said that being gay is an abomination to mankind and that Hispanic people had a deceitful trait that goes way back to biblical times.

Whitey Bulger is taken from a Coast Guard helicopter to an awaiting Sheriff vehicle after attending federal court in Boston, on June 30, 2011.Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images Inmates at the federal prison where James "Whitey" Bulger was killed hours after arriving knew ahead of time that the convicted mob boss was being transferred to the facility and were taking bets on how long he would survive, according to a report released Wednesday by the Justice Department's inspector general.

Two men were shot and killed by corrections officers during a fight with another inmate Tuesday at a state prison in Northern California, according to prison officials.The men attacked 68-year-old Anthony Aguilera with prison-made weapons, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement Wednesday.