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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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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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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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State Auditor Beth Wood says passage of her agency bill to help clean up local governments’ slipshod financial bookkeeping is a major win for taxpayers across the state.
Published: Saturday, June 1st, 2019 @ 8:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The state’s tax-supported managed care agencies for mental health are a mess.
Published: Friday, May 24th, 2019 @ 3:56 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A scathing report from N.C. State Auditor Beth Wood released Wednesday, April 24, found the accounting methods used by the N.C. Global TransPark Authority were so bad that “fraud could occur and go undetected.”
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2019 @ 9:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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An audit released Monday, April 8, highlighted a series of errors and weaknesses in DHHS operations.
Published: Wednesday, April 24th, 2019 @ 11:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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state Division of Motor Vehicles inspector violated agency policy by improperly collecting pay for a 3 1/2-hour daily commute, costing the state $85,000
Published: Wednesday, November 29th, 2017 @ 10:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new report from State Auditor Beth Wood says the agency has not been able to certify that the North Carolina Association of Educators meets statutory membership (G.S. 143B-426.40(g) requirements to permit the state to perform payroll dues deductions
Published: Wednesday, November 15th, 2017 @ 2:39 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina's clerks of Superior Court are countering criticism from State Auditor Beth Wood over a failure to correct ongoing problems
Published: Thursday, July 27th, 2017 @ 10:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The statewide recount is almost over, and it appears my campaign will come up short on the vote count
Published: Friday, December 9th, 2016 @ 4:14 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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An organization representing 55,000 state employees has asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate "widespread potential violations of law" involving State Treasurer Janet Cowell's handling of investments from the $87 billion state retirement system.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 9:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina state auditor's office has not shied away from telling state agencies when they fall short of meeting accepted standards for handling taxpayers' money. Auditor Beth Wood, an elected Democrat, discussed her office's priorities during a presentation earlier this year for the...
Published: Tuesday, May 27th, 2014 @ 9:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Aldona Wos places a top deputy temporarily in charge of the state's beleaguered Medicaid system, state Auditor Beth Wood has launched a cost and performance study of the nonprofit entity overseeing much of Medicaid, the joint federal/state...
Published: Tuesday, February 18th, 2014 @ 12:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Virtual Public School is doing a poor job tracking enrollment figures, a new audit says. "Student enrollment is a key factor used to calculate NCVPS teacher pay," says the report, prepared by state Auditor Beth Wood's office. "As a result, there is an increased risk that errors could be...
Published: Tuesday, November 26th, 2013 @ 10:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new report from State Auditor Beth Wood says that the State Surplus Property office likely isn't getting all the revenue it could for taxpayers because of its bidding process, and suggests that the office move to an online bidding process similar to eBay.
Published: Sunday, November 17th, 2013 @ 10:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new state audit slams a former child care provider for setting up a front company to avoid sanctions.
Published: Saturday, September 21st, 2013 @ 9:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A high-ranking manager at the UNC School of the Arts will keep her $114,695 a year job despite investigative findings that she improperly gave a state computer to her son for use at college and then obtained another one for herself at taxpayer expense.
Published: Friday, August 30th, 2013 @ 4:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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