{"id":1096,"date":"2019-08-02T11:27:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T11:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.236.132.51\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2026-04-12T08:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:59:18","slug":"hud-to-appoint-federal-financial-monitor-to-oversee-puerto-rico-disaster-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/fr\/hud-to-appoint-federal-financial-monitor-to-oversee-puerto-rico-disaster-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"HUD to Appoint Federal Financial Monitor to Oversee Puerto Rico Disaster Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>HUD No. 19-115<br \/>\nHUD Public Affairs<br \/>\n(202) 708-0685<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><strong>FOR RELEASE<\/strong><br \/>\nFriday<br \/>\nAugust 2, 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3 align=\"center\"><b>HUD TO APPOINT FEDERAL FINANCIAL MONITOR TO OVERSEE PUERTO RICO DISASTER FUNDS<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; Today, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced its plan to appoint a Federal Financial Monitor to oversee the disbursement of disaster recovery dollars to Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0Given the Puerto Rico government&rsquo;s alleged corruption, fiscal irregularities and mismanagement, we will appoint a Federal Financial Monitor to oversee the disbursement of all HUD disaster recovery funds,\u00a0\u00bb said Secretary Ben Carson. \u00ab\u00a0The Federal Financial Monitor&rsquo;s guidance, coupled with our new, improved financial controls, will ensure recovery funds get to the people who need them most and protect taxpayers who are footing the bill.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Financial Monitor will have extensive legal, accounting, construction management and audit oversight experience and be tasked with ensuring the efficient, effective, and accountable use of funds by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leading a special post-disaster team in San Juan, Puerto Rico;<\/li>\n<li>Oversight of all Puerto Rico disaster recovery funds previously awarded and to be awarded in the future by HUD;<\/li>\n<li>Taking immediate action to prevent, detect and stop any waste, fraud, and abuse;<\/li>\n<li>Implementing real-time monitoring to federal flow-of-funds and financial controls; and<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring taxpayer dollars designated for recovery help people in need and are not wasted through corruption or mismanagement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HUD No. 19-115 HUD Public Affairs (202) 708-0685 FOR RELEASE Friday August 2, 2019 HUD TO APPOINT FEDERAL FINANCIAL MONITOR TO OVERSEE PUERTO RICO DISASTER FUNDS WASHINGTON &#8211; Today, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced its plan to appoint a Federal Financial Monitor to oversee the disbursement of disaster recovery dollars to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"project_id":"","notification":"","due_date":"","status":"","show_rebuild":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-viodr-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18868,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/18868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}