Federal prosecutors decided not to pursue criminal charges against a company because the EPA didn’t report its “unmistakable” signs of fraud fast enough, according to a Wednesday memo from the agency’s internal watchdog.
The incident provoked the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Inspector General to again remind the agency to do a better job of training its staffers about what fraud is and how they must respond when they suspect it.
The case centers on emails sent by an unnamed business entity in 2019 to staffers in the EPA ...
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