Federal Bureau of Investigation: Weak Controls over Trilogy Project Led to Payment of Questionable Contractor Costs and Missing Assets, Full Report GAO-06-698T, and Highlights, May 2, 2006.
“FBI’s review and approval process for Trilogy contractor invoices, which included a review role for GSA as contracting agency, did not provide an adequate basis for verifying that goods and services billed were actually received and that the amounts billed were appropriate, leaving FBI highly vulnerable to payments of unallowable costs. This vulnerability is demonstrated by FBI’s payment of about $10.1 million in questionable contractor costs we identified using data mining, document analysis, and other forensic auditing techniques.”
