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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Auditors unveil spotty record-keeping

Auditors have discovered hundreds of thousands of dollars in accounting discrepancies in bank accounts run by the Fulton County Sheriff. However, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Sheriff Myron Freeman didn’t do anything illegal. The paper says the discrepancies show a chronic lack of oversight, spotty compliance with policies and inadequate accounting staff. In one instance, auditors found one bank account was nearly $300,000 short of what jail records indicated.

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