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Selected Five-Year Statistics of the OIG

Office of Audit

	FY 2007	FY 2008	FY 2009	FY 2010	FY 2011
Audit and Evaluation Reports Issued	95	129	52	67	69
Questioned Costs ($ in millions)	$44.7	$138.2	$14.7	$72.6	$34.3
Funds Recommended be put to better use ($ in millions)	$1.2	$0	-	$1.4 billion	$682.8

Office of Labor Racketeering and Fraud Investigations

	FY 2007	FY 2008	FY 2009	FY 2010	FY 2011
Cases Opened	418	388	380	531	611
Cases Closed	522	481	467	496	459
Cases referred for prosecution	301	290	282	353	368
Indictments	594	698	442	344	433
Convictions	451	601	459	315	305
Monetary¹ ($ in millions)	$514.7	$68.2	$91.6	$133	$205.9

Breakout by Program Fraud Investigations

	FY 2007	FY 2008	FY 2009	FY 2010	FY 2011
Cases Opened	325	276	284	414	530
Cases Closed	411	389	350	366	337
Cases referred for prosecution	221	216	201	248	295
Indictments	396	503	331	205	305
Convictions	268	387	313	203	233
Monetary¹ ($ in millions)	$387.6	$44	$12.1	$60.1	$130.6

Breakout by Labor Racketeering Investigations

	FY 2007	FY 2008	FY 2009	FY 2010	FY 2011
Cases Opened	93	112	96	117	81
Cases Closed	111	92	117	130	122
Cases referred for prosecution	80	74	81	105	73
Indictments	198	195	111	139	128
Convictions	183	214	146	112	72
Fines, restitutions, forfeitures, civil monetary actions ($ in millions)	$27.1	$24.2	$76.2	$72.9	$75.4

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