U.S. Department of Labor

Selected Five-Year Statistics of the OIG

Office of Audit

	FY 2001	FY 2002	FY 2003	FY 2004	FY 2005
Audit and Evaluation Reports Issued	82	91	103	115	139
Questioned Costs ($ in millions)	$41.6	$44.7	$189.9	$23.5	$16.6
Funds Recommended be put to better use ($ in millions)	$2.3	$.2	$428	-	$41.7

Office of Labor Racketeering and Fraud Investigations

	FY 2001	FY 2002	FY 2003	FY 2004	FY 2005
Cases Opened	540	401	462	463	457
Cases Closed	436	587	494	447	433
Cases referred for prosecution	248	236	209	242	269
Indictments	376	459	554	529	669
Convictions	240	349	347	363	417
Monetary¹ ($ in millions)	$108.6	$244.3²	$86.5	$161.8	$234.7

Breakout by Program Fraud Investigations

	FY 2001	FY 2002	FY 2003	FY 2004	FY 2005
Cases Opened	435	276	338	328	354
Cases Closed	327	457	350	333	326
Cases referred for prosecution	191	162	143	155	181
Indictments	215	241	373	269	347
Convictions	148	195	227	220	221
Monetary¹ ($ in millions)	$66.1	$138.4	$58.6	$125.3	$47

Breakout by Labor Racketeering Investigations

	FY 2001	FY 2002	FY 2003	FY 2004	FY 2005
Cases Opened	105	125	124	135	103
Cases Closed	109	130	144	115	107
Cases referred for prosecution	57	74	66	87	88
Indictments	161	218	181	260	322
Convictions	92	154	120	143	196
Fines, restitutions, forfeitures, civil monetary actions ($ in millions)	42.5	105.9²	27.9	$36.5	$187.9

¹Includes recoveries, cost efficiencies, restitutions, fines/penalties, civil monetary actions, fines, forfeitures and court costs

²This figure does not include an $85.3 million cost efficiency that was realized by the government as the result of the State of New York Department of Transportation canceling a contract.



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