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Gov. Roy Cooper signed two bills into law Monday and vetoed three, with one in particular raising disapproval from two Council of State members who call for lawmakers to override it.
Published: Sunday, August 13th, 2023 @ 5:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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SB299 Provides Local Government Commission With Tools to Help Ensure Audit Rules Are Followed
Published: Friday, July 21st, 2023 @ 11:42 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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An Act to Increase Compliance by Counties and Municipalities That Fail to Timely Submit an Annual Audit Report
Published: Sunday, July 16th, 2023 @ 4:32 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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An audit from the North Carolina State Auditor Beth Wood’s office reveals that the state’s Pandemic Recovery Office didn’t properly monitor $159.9 million in federal COVID-19 funds.
Published: Friday, May 19th, 2023 @ 8:04 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina State Auditor’s Office found that the N.C. Department of Public Instruction had some issues during a Statewide Federal Compliance Audit.
Published: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 11:48 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina State Auditor Beth Wood pleaded guilty today to a hit-and-run charge for a December accident involving a state-owned vehicle in Wake County Court.
Published: Friday, April 14th, 2023 @ 8:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State Department says a congressional panel consisting of former military officials involved in the blunders, activists, and defense contractor executives should do the probe instead.
Published: Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 @ 12:58 am
By: Daily Wire
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A new court date has been set for North Carolina State Auditor Beth Wood, who was allegedly involved in a hit-and-run incident on Dec. 8 in downtown Raleigh.
Published: Friday, February 10th, 2023 @ 10:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s State Auditor Beth Wood released a statement Jan. 23 apologizing for a hit-and-run accident in December that resulted in her state-owned vehicle partially sitting atop another parked car.
Published: Tuesday, February 7th, 2023 @ 11:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, asked State Auditor Beth Wood about findings from an audit of COVID-19 relief funds.
Published: Tuesday, January 17th, 2023 @ 9:21 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The audit found as of June 30, OSBM disbursed $740 million to state agencies, $38 million to public schools and higher education, and $524 million for employee bonuses and benefits
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 @ 7:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Beaufort County Community College is putting the final touches on its $110,000 renovation of the auditorium in the Continuing Education Building (8).
Published: Sunday, December 4th, 2022 @ 1:07 pm
By: Attila Nemecz
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those 87,000 new auditors will be hard asses
Published: Thursday, August 11th, 2022 @ 7:44 am
By: John Steed
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A former candidate for town council in Sedalia says he filed a report with the N.C. State Auditor’s Office in early June to make the auditor aware of questionable issues with the council’s use of credit cards and town finances.
Published: Saturday, June 11th, 2022 @ 8:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State Auditor Beth Wood released a report that states the town manager of the Town of Franklinton made $37,900 in purchases without following the formal bidding requirements in violation of the town’s purchasing policy.
Published: Saturday, May 28th, 2022 @ 11:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Another report out this week from the N.C. Office of the State Auditor shows inadequate monitoring of funds and deficiencies from departments including the N.C. Department of Public Safety and N.C. Pandemic Recovery Office.
Published: Tuesday, April 19th, 2022 @ 8:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. State Auditor Beth Wood’s office recently issued an audit that shows millions of dollars of Hurricane Florence disaster recovery funds were distributed with limited monitoring and/or without ensuring all recipients had a method to measure the results.
Published: Monday, April 18th, 2022 @ 11:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The state auditor’s office found that a former accounting technician in the town of Spring Lake misappropriated more than $430,000 in taxpayer funds for personal use and has referred its report to the FBI and State Bureau of Investigation for a possible criminal investigation.
Published: Monday, March 21st, 2022 @ 11:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The state auditor’s office found that Johnson County Sheriff Steve Bizzell bought vehicles and gas masks without obtaining the proper written quotes, in violation of the county’s purchasing policy.
Published: Thursday, March 3rd, 2022 @ 11:15 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina State Auditor’s Office launched an investigation into the Brunswick County town of Ocean Isle after receiving several allegations.
Published: Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 @ 1:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Auditor Beth Wood’s office found that Ocean Isle Beach Mayor Debbie Smith benefitted from using confidential town information in her real estate company’s purchase of a former police station site in 2018
Published: Sunday, January 30th, 2022 @ 9:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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City Officials Have Not Filed Required Audits for Past Two Years, Raising Serious Concerns
Published: Thursday, January 20th, 2022 @ 12:33 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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State Auditor Beth Wood is investigating the city of Goldsboro over possible mismanagement and misappropriation of funds.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 11:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State Auditor Beth Wood is questioning a plan by the Local Government Commission to sell bonds to buy the assets of the Bald Head Island Transportation System, saying the body needs to verify system valuation before placing the applications on the agenda.
Published: Saturday, December 11th, 2021 @ 5:45 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State auditors found that a former finance officer in the troubled municipality of East Laurinburg used town taxpayer money on personal expenses, which resulted in overdrafts of the town’s bank account.
Published: Wednesday, November 17th, 2021 @ 8:32 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State Auditor Beth Wood’s office found a glaring lack of transparency in the town of Plymouth due to the nonexistence of meeting minutes for the Town Council for most of 2020.
Published: Thursday, August 26th, 2021 @ 9:48 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State auditors found Roanoke-Chowan Community College issued more than $10.3 million in checks with invalid signatures between August 2019 and August 2020, putting the school at increased risk of fraud.
Published: Sunday, August 8th, 2021 @ 7:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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“The truth is that Beth Woods and Lisa Barnes, a Democrat and a Republican, are operating tactics and strategies out of the old 1898 racist playbook.”
Published: Thursday, July 8th, 2021 @ 10:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The federal government sent nearly $4 billion in COVID relief money to North Carolina, but a sizable chunk of it was returned, unwanted, a new report from the state auditor’s office finds.
Published: Monday, April 5th, 2021 @ 4:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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An audit released by State Auditor Beth Wood’s office Thursday, Feb. 18, found the state Department of Health and Human Services did a poor job of gatekeeping the Medicaid Provider Enrollment process.
Published: Monday, February 22nd, 2021 @ 12:32 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Department of Public Instruction spent $76 million of Coronavirus Relief Funds without making sure the money was helping students, a new audit report says.
Published: Thursday, December 3rd, 2020 @ 8:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawmakers blasted the N.C. Department of Transportation for careless overspending, suggesting the DOT is using the coronavirus to “cover up” irresponsible cash management.
Published: Friday, May 22nd, 2020 @ 3:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper, in the wake of COVID-19, made it easier to apply for Medicaid.
Published: Tuesday, May 19th, 2020 @ 10:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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