Mayor Gets Apprehended for Spending on Furnitures
Watch out Mayor, while it does not hurt to lavish the office with high-quality office furnitures, you must make the people happy first.
A feisty editorial from The Washington Times has apprehended the 6-month-old Fenty Administration for spending the budget on office furniture instead of road repairs.
This claim has been supported by a new audit which reveals that D.C. Officials improperly spend more than $1.5 million on portable potties, furniture and utility expenses from a fund that was supposedly for the improvement of alleys, curbs, and roads.
“Mixing appropriations and digging into one pot of money to pay for other expenses—whether locally or federal appropriated or not—borders on fiscal management. The audit by the D.C. Office of the Inspector General, which was requested by Council member Carol Schwartz, examined the $64 million local-roads fund,” the editorial bravely stated.
According to a recent report by Jim McElahtton last July 6, there were no written policies and procedures, but only insufficient separation of duties over billings and receipts and no reconciliation of billings to receipts and accounts receivable.
However, the Mayor’s alleged lavish on office furnitures was not the first time that he got in steep hot water. Last year, he allegedly spent more on transporting Medicaid patients ($21 million) than on the patients’ actual doctor visits. “
“The overarching problem? Fraud and mismanagement. The culprits? Bad billings, no billings, billings for dead patients. Poor to no oversight. Now we learn (again from Mr. McElhatton, in yesterday’s editions of The Washington Times) that to “fix” that problem, the city is contracting with a St. Louis company that was involved in a fraud investigation. In fact, a spokesman for Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt minced no words, saying the company “bilked” the system,” the editorial said.
Mayor Adrian Fenty has launched some important initiatives since taking office six months ago, but since this editorial, he would have to prove more.
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