An independent watchdog this week opened a broad investigation into Social Security Inspector General Gail Ennis and her office following a Post report that revealed how an anti-fraud program has imposed massive penalties on disabled and elderly people.
inquiry by the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency , a group that investigates misconduct allegations against inspectors general, comes as Ennis has been directed by the acting Social Security commissioner to suspend the program amid mounting political pressure.the chairwoman of the inspectors general council, Allison Lerner, who took the unusual step of notifying Congress and the White House that she had opened the probe.
Many of those fined had no hope of ever being able to pay. Over a seven-month period that ended in mid-2019, 83 people were charged a total of $11.5 million, documents obtained by The Post showed — a jump from less than $700,000 for all of 2017. Those senior officials were then abruptly placed on administrative leave, with one fired and the other demoted. Both are back at work, one after settling a whistleblower case with the agency. The other, attorney Deborah Shaw, in May was found by an administrative law judge at the Merit Systems Protection Board to have been the victim of “whistleblower reprisal” by Ennis’s office.
Rep. Gerald E. Connolly , who leads the government operations panel on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, said in a statement that “inspectors general must be pure as driven snow” and said other watchdogs have lingered in their positions for years while the council investigated.Congress is watching, and our oversight Subcommittee is prepared to take appropriate, swift action,” Connolly wrote.
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