UPDATED: ABOUT THE OFFICE OF STATE AUDITOR
“The mission of the State Auditor’s office is to provide Delaware’s citizens and government leaders with professional, independent evaluations of the State’s fiscal accountability and public program performance.”
Why isn’t that happening?
It is a valid question.
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Oh Jeebus! The shit is being positioned squarley infront of the fan.
Arrest(s) may have already been made. If so, what is the deal with Patrick Jackson’s story this am? Was he writting around that fact to protect some high ups in the state government? If so who? So many questions.
To me the story reads as if he was he was clearly out to cover somone’s ass.
Come on, J.
Employees of DEMOCRAT Fin. Sec. Richard Cordrey under DEMOCRAT Governor RUTH ANN MINNER (people who I would bet 20 to 1 are themselves DEMOCRATS) rip off the state and you are only concerned about the Auditor, who happens to be a …. REPUBLICAN?
Move up the food chain, right back to your own party’s negligents, malfeasants, and crooks at the top. Talk about comatose at the switch these people are…
I think Jackson or the NJ was trying cover RAM’s ass in addition to some others. There is a lot of covering go on the more I read that thing.
Not to mention Wagner’s office BROKE the case.
Here’s the NJ quote:
“No one at the state has been fired or placed on administrative leave, but the case has been handed over to the Delaware State Police after a three-month internal probe at the Finance Department, which began with a call from an anonymous tipster to the state Auditor’s Office.”
That doesn’t quite answer the question: has anyone been arrested? Is the Delaware State Police getting ‘handed’ this case, or is some other law enforcement body handling it?
Lot of weird holes in this story. But don’t worry; where there’s a weird hole, there’s Wagner.
Dis — Is the Auditor’s office supposed to be a criminal investigative service?
Who are you, fuckin’ Socrates? “I’ll educate my adoring fans with leading questions. In fact, I’ll call it the Burris Method!”
…provide Delaware’s citizens and government leaders with professional, independent evaluations of the State’s fiscal accountability…
uhh…
You have to wonder if this goes back many years, perhaps even as far back as to when John Carney was overseeing the Dept. of Finance. If so, there is a lot to cover up.
Is that a yes?
I’ve been thinking about this, and in order to bypass a cursory review, checks must have been made out to the person listed as owner of the escheated funds. Then, that person’s signature is forged, endorsing the check to the dishonest party, who then deposits it in his/her account.
A review within the Dept. of Finance would uncover a check going to the person listed as owner. Nothing wrong there. Its only afterwards, once the check is beyond the purview of the Finance Dept., that things become dishonest.
Other than the mysterious tipster, the only other indication would have been a review of the actual cancelled checks showing the same endorsee over and over.
Pretty slick. However, the problem is the paper trail. Some one benefitting from the scam has to be associated with the endorsee. The person(s) playing this scam knew that sooner or later someone would discover the paper trail and follow it back to them.
Speculation: this sounds like a drug problem to me. No one else would take such a risk leaving a permanent paper trail.
Drugs, gaming, women…what does it matter? If a joker w/o a job hits someone up for $10.00 his ass will be in jail (no question). These so-called ‘white collar’ thieves get on my nerve.
What if it goes all the way back to Carper? That would be THE BEST.
FYI: I seem to remember that Patrick Jackson worked for the city of Wilmington…need I say more?
The proper steps are three fold.
1. Bring in the proper level of sophistication and resources to find the breakdown in the procedures and find who is responsible on a criminal level.
2. Hold accountable the person(s)in the Finance Department who had responsibility for the policies and procedures.
3. Execute new procedures as soon as possible which will provide adequate safegaurds.
I do agree with Mr. Sharp that “outside” experts should come in. I think an independent firm should examine every agency of state government for effectiveness, staffing and compliance.
Mike Protack,
You over-engineer. Let me sum up your points 1, 2 & 3. You gotta focus on the sound-bite.
“Look at the backs of the cashed checks and see if the endorsement matches the payee.”
There. Wasn’t that easy? Now send me $3 million you would have spent on outside experts as Governor.