Auditors can’t locate former St. Louis circuit attorney to complete state audit. ( Kim Gardner )
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Nexstar Media ^
| May 6, 2024 | JIM SALTER
A state examination of the office that handles criminal prosecutions in St. Louis is being delayed because auditors can’t find former Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, Missouri Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick said Monday. Fitzpatrick said in a news release that auditors have tried for several months to contact Gardner, including trying to serve her
with a subpoena. Her whereabouts remain unknown, he said. “This is a pattern of behavior with Kim Gardner, who hasn’t shown a willingness to be transparent or accountable,” Fitzpatrick, a Republican, said in a news release. “Without question, she knows our audit is ongoing and that we want...
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California city OK's $1M per unit homeless housing project after audit found state wasted billions on crisis
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Fox News via Yahoo ^
| April 21, 2024 | Bradford Betz
Santa Monica city officials last week approved a multimillion-dollar apartment unit for the homeless just days after the release of an audit which found California could not account for the $24 billion it spent on the state’s burgeoning homeless crisis. The
122-unit building for the homeless will include a mix of studio, one, two and three-bedroom apartments, along with ground floor retail and residential and commercial parking spaces. A design concept available on the city's website shows that the multi-apartment unit will cost more than $123 million, for a cost of just over $1 million each for the 122 apartments....
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Audit: San Jose Failed to Adequately Track $300 Million in Homelessness Spending
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San Jose Mercury News ^
| April 15, 2024 | Ethan Varian
City urged to work harder to assess cost, impactOver the past three years, San Jose has failed to consistently track the more than $300 million spent to fight homelessness and cannot adequately ensure that the money is helping to alleviate the crisis, according to a much-anticipated state audit. The
financial audit, released this week by the California State Auditor, also found that San Jose lacks clear goals for its homelessness programs and has no cohesive plan for building the affordable housing needed for its estimated 6,340 homeless residents. “The biggest conclusion that the auditors came back with is that there’s...
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Audit: California Lost Track of $24 Billion Spent to Combat Homelessness
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Breitbart ^
| 04/12/2024 | OLIVIA RONDEAU
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) administration lost track of the $24 billion in taxpayer funds it spent over the past five years in an attempt to curb the state’s homelessness crisis, an audit has found. The
California State Auditor’s report, released on April 9, detailed multiple “gaps” in accountability in regards to how the money was allocated during the 2018-2023 fiscal years. Lead auditor Grant Parks said the state “has not collected sufficient data” to prove that the billions of dollars improved the situation.
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California Has No Idea How Much Its Homeless Programs Are Costing, Audit Finds
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American Action News via Daily Caller ^
| 04/09/2024 | ROBERT SCHMAD
California lacks information on the costs or efficacy of its homelessness programs, despite allocating billions of dollars to them, a report released by the state auditor’s office on Tuesday found. California
Interagency Council on Homelessness (ICH) is responsible for coordinating and evaluating the efforts of California’s state agency in reducing homelessness. ICH, however, “has not consistently tracked and evaluated” the state’s efforts to prevent and end homelessness and, as a result, California “lacks current information on the ongoing costs and outcomes of its homelessness programs,” according to a report from the California State Auditor. The homeless population in California has...
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California fails to track effectiveness of billions spent on homelessness, audit finds
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Los Angeles Times via Yahoo ^
| April 9, 2024 | Mackenzie Mays
California has failed to adequately monitor the outcomes of its vast spending on homelessness programs, according to a state audit released Tuesday A new report from the California State Auditor's Office found that a state council created to oversee the implementation of homelessness programs has not consistently tracked spending or the outcomes
of those programs. California has spent $20 billion over the past five years dedicated to the state's homelessness crisis, including funneling money toward supporting shelters and subsidizing rent. Still, homelessness grew 6% in 2023 from the year prior, to more than 180,000 people, according to federal "point in...
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How effective are California’s homelessness programs? Audit finds state hasn’t kept track well
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KSBW ^
| Apr 9, 2024
California spent $24 billion to tackle homelessness over the past five years but didn’t consistently track whether the huge outlay of public money actually improved the situation, according to state audit released Tuesday. With makeshift tents lining the streets and disrupting businesses in cities and towns throughout California, homelessness has become one
of the most frustrating and seemingly intractable issues in the country’s most populous state. An estimated 171,000 people are homeless in California, which amounts to roughly 30% of all of the homeless people in the U.S. Despite the roughly $24 billion spent on homeless and housing programs during...
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California audit finds state is broke: $55 billion more owed than available
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The Center Square ^
| 20 March 2024 | By Kenneth Schrupp
California just filed its 2021-2022 audited financial statement, 350 days past the filing deadline. In
its filing, the state admits that COVID-era unemployment fraud cost the state $29 billion that must be paid back to the federal government, and that in 2022, the state had $256 billion more in liabilities than it had in unrestricted resources. After accounting for restricted resources, such as purpose-specific state trust funds and bonds, the state still owed $55 billion more than it had. With massive stock market gains and unprecedented job growth in the high-earning tech field amid a post-pandemic recovery, 2022 was a...
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F.A.A. Audit of Boeing’s 737 Max Production Found Dozens of Issues
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New York Times ^
| March 12, 2024, 10:08 a.m. ET | By Mark Walker Reporting from Washington
The company failed 33 of 89 audits during an examination conducted by the Federal Aviation Administration after a panel blew off an Alaska Airlines jet in January. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A six-week audit by the Federal Aviation Administration of Boeing’s production of the 737 Max jet found dozens of problems throughout the manufacturing process
at the plane maker and one of its key suppliers, according to a slide presentation reviewed by The New York Times. The air-safety regulator initiated the examination after a door panel blew off a 737 Max 9 during an Alaska Airlines flight in early January. Last week, the...
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Zelensky in bind over how to draft more troops as Russian forces advance
(Orders audit to find 700,000 men currently on the books but nowhere to be found)
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WP ^
| 3/4/24 | Siobhan O’Grady
KYIV — Even as he promises international partners that Ukraine will handle the fighting if given needed weapons and other support, President Volodymyr Zelensky and his top military commanders have failed so far to come up with a clear plan to conscript or recruit many thousands of new soldiers critically needed to
defend against Russia’s continuing attacks. The quandary over how to fill the ranks has confronted Zelensky with perhaps the greatest challenge to his leadership since the start of the February 2022 invasion. The lack of a clear mobilization strategy — or even agreement on how many more troops...
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Clark County Unlawfully Deleted Nevada Election Records, New Audit Claims
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The Federalist ^
| 02/29/2024 | Shawn Fleetwood
Clark County violated Nevada and federal law by prematurely deleting communication records related to its voter registration lists, an audit published on Thursday claims. In
a litigation notice sent to Clark County Registrar Lorena Portillo on Tuesday, Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE) asserted that Nevada’s most populous county violated the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) and several state laws by deleting most of its election-related communications after six months. The NVRA requires states to “maintain for at least 2 years” and “make available for public inspection … all records concerning the implementation of programs and activities conducted for...
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Outrage in Houston After Police Audit Reveals 260,000 Crimes Not Investigated
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Breitbart ^
| 02/29/2024 | ILDEFONSO ORTIZ and BRANDON DARBY
Politicians and law enforcement figures in Houston are dealing with the massive blowback after an audit revealed that for at least eight years, authorities had “suspended” and not investigated more than 260,000 criminal cases. Officials
say a lack of manpower led to the suspension of about 10 percent of the crimes reported. The revelations led to various groups calling for the firing of Houston Police Chief Troy Finner. The issue first began earlier this month when information from an internal audit revealed that thousands of sexual assault cases had been suspended from investigations and simply filed as not enough manpower....
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4 red flags for an IRS tax audit — and how to avoid the ‘audit lottery,’ according to tax pros
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CNBC ^
| FEB 13 20241:49 PM EST | Kate Dore
As Americans file returns this season, some worry about IRS audits amid agency efforts to ramp up service, technology and enforcement. Recent
IRS enforcement has targeted high-income individuals, large corporations and complex partnerships. But everyday filers could still face an audit — and certain issues are more prone to IRS scrutiny, experts say. You don’t want to face the “audit lottery,” warned Ryan Losi, a certified public accountant and executive vice president of CPA firm Piascik. Audit rates of individual income tax returns decreased for all income levels from tax years 2010 to 2019, largely due to lower IRS funding,...
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Part 2: Full Scope of Dominion Voting Machine Hack in Federal Court is FAR Worse than Just the BIC Pen Hack – Audit Logs Can Be Edited
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Gateway Pundit ^
| Brian Lupo
In Part 1 of this series on the explosive testimony and demonstration of University of Michigan Professor Dr. J Alex Halderman in the federal lawsuit Curling v. Raffensperger,
The Gateway Pundit covered more in-depth the ease of exploiting the “BIC pen hack” and, further, the simple and inexpensive creation of voter, poll-worker, and, most importantly, technician Smart cards to attack the Dominion ICX BMD or ballot marking device. Part 1 can be read here. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01 But there was much more revealed in Judge Totenberg’s courtroom regarding the vulnerabilities of these electronic voting devices. To summarize Part 1, Dr. Halderman was...
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BREAKING ELECTION INTEGRITY WIN: Texas AG Paxton Demands Counties Provide Machine Audit Logs
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creativedestructionmedia.com ^
| 1/14/2024 | CDM Staff
Complying with open records requests nationwide will likely prove massive election fraud At CDM we have been cataloguing a rogues gallery of suspected election fraudsters, along with corroborating evidence across several states for months. The
issue has centered mainly on the 'blank ballot' issue found throughout the nation in states which are allowing the alleged fraud by allowing machines to designate large percentages of ballots cast 'blank' and then adjudicating them by software. In short, a sophisticated way of 'changing votes'. In Broward County, FL in 2020, upwards of 20% of ballots cast in some precincts were designated 'blank'. When...
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Going Viral… New Evidence Suggests There Was Never Voting Machine Election Audit Performed in Georgia Following 2020 Election – Raffensperger Caught Again!
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The Gateway Pundit ^
| December 31, 2023 | Jim Hoft
There is currently no evidence that there was ever a voting machine election audit performed in Georgia following the 2020 election. On
November 17, 2020, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger made an announcement that an audit “using forensic techniques” was completed with “no sign of foul play” in the 2020 election. The statement previously appeared on the Secretary of State’s webpage and is still available via the Wayback Machine here. Investigative journalist Kevin Moncla of the Election Oversight Group, and another individual began to send Open Records Requests from the counties that were allegedly “audited” back in 2022. While...
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Smoke and Mirrors: New Evidence Suggests That NO Audit was Performed by Election Machine Testing Company as Claimed by Georgia Secretary of State
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GATEWAYPUNDIT ^
| 12/20/2023 | brian rufo
This article was based on research done by the Election Oversight Group and a private Georgia citizen. If
you would like to support the Elections Oversight Group, you can do so here. There is little-to-no funding for backend election investigations but hundreds of millions of dollars “donated” to register every person with a pulse. The “Claim” On November 17, 2020, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger made an announcement that an audit “using forensic techniques” was completed with “no sign of foul play” in the 2020 election. The statement previously appeared on the Secretary of State’s webpage and is still...
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Anyone know how to reach Paul Harris who helped audit Maricopa county Arizona?
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today | Me
Paul Harris got up before the Arizona Senate and testified that he was responsible for auditing the UOCAVA ballots. (Uniform
Overseas Civilian Absentee Act) He said these ballots went from 1,600 ballots in 2016, to around 9,600 in 2020, and 95% of them were for Joe Biden!
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Independent Audit Blasts Disney For Pulling ‘Bait And Switch’ On Florida: ‘A Mousetrap’
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Daily Wire ^
| Dec 4, 2023 | By Brent Scher
Disney's special governing district was “a stunning deviation from the good governance standards of the State of Florida,” audit concludes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Disney secured the ability to effectively govern itself in Florida for more than half a century by performing a “bait and switch” on the state, and used its “complete and unaccountable
governmental power” to “maximize its profits” at “the expense of the public good,” according to an independent audit of the entertainment giant’s role in the state. The audit of the Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID), which was established by Florida to bring Disney’s business to the state in...
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REPORT: The Pentagon Just Failed its Sixth Straight Audit – Trillions of Dollars ‘Missing’
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The Gateway Pundit ^
| 11/16/2023 | Mike LaChance
The Pentagon has just failed its sixth audit in as many years.In early October, it was reported that the Pentagon was crying broke to Congress, now this.Considering that the world is on fire under Biden, now would be a good time to have our Defense Department in order, but no such luck.The
Department of Defense (DOD) failed its sixth straight audit with little positive change from the year prior, despite pledges from Pentagon leaders to make improvements on the massive undertaking each year.Auditors gave seven of the department’s 29 sub-agencies a clean audit in 2023, with no change from the...
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