The Department of Homeland Security Inspector General,
Richard L. Skinner, has announced that the department is
establishing a new Office for Hurricane Katrina Oversight
to “coordinate audit activities” of other federal IGs
with oversight responsibility of funds transferred to
their agencies by FEMA.
The new office will be headed by Matthew Jadacki, former
acting chief financial officer and for FEMA, and an audit
manager in that agency’s IG office prior to that.
According to DHS, the new oversight office will “focus on
preventing problems through a proactive program of internal
control reviews and contract audits to ensure disaster
assistance funds are being spent wisely.”
Jadacki is on assignment from the National Weather
Service, and would be responsible for overseeing the
management and expenditure of all contracts, grants and
governmental operations related to the Katrina relief
effort, DHS said.
