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''It's not that it has gone out in anyone's purse or in anyone's pocket,'' Chase said. ''The problem is when you can't tell, and when the department can't tell you, exactly which grants (go with) which expenditures, with which dollars.''

This is most assuredly attributable to the 'comingling' of funds which results from incompetence and not misfeasance.

BTW, are you still buying those cheap cigarettes?

[SheLion]

BTW, are you still buying those cheap cigarettes?

Cheap? No cigarettes are cheap in Maine. Unless you roll your own, to which I do. For under $8 dollars, I roll a beautiful CARTON of cigarettes.

And PS: I'm over 21. heh!

[Lancey Howard]

This is most assuredly attributable to the 'comingling' of funds which results from incompetence and not misfeasance.

I think you are off on a planet of your very own. I have no doubt that politically connected scumbags ran off with the bulk of the "unaccounted for" $10 million.