11 Sep 2014 | Inaccurate records, Inadequate Systems, Incomplete records, Lack of transparency, Non-compliance, Systemic failure
If the mysterious disappearance of 28 700-pound water meters and an $80,000 backhoe didn’t alert you to laughably bad security at the Department of Watershed Management’s warehouses, the city auditor has conveniently documented the failures for you in a scathing...12 Jun 2014 | Breakdowns in Accountability, Exposed through audit, Inaccurate records, Lack of transparency, Non-compliance
The Directorate of Public service management (DPSM) has long been besieged by reports and complaints of maladministration and general malpractice in the running of the civil service. Recent Public Accounts Committee meetings have revealed among others the existence of...20 Mar 2014 | Chaotic Record Keeping, Inappropriate Disposal or Destruction, Lack of transparency, Policing, Uncategorized
Two employees at Scotland Yard were ordered to shred a “lorry-load” of police corruption intelligence, according to evidence submitted to a damning review of the Metropolitan Police. Top-secret material gathered during a four-year investigation, codenamed Operation...13 Feb 2014 | Exposed through audit, Lack of transparency, Non-compliance
CHARLESTON, W. Va. (AP) — A legislative audit of the West Virginia Department of Agriculture has uncovered poor record keeping, questionable reimbursements and other issues with a loan program that may have cost the state hundreds of thousands of dollars during the...9 Jan 2014 | Exposed through audit, Inadequate Systems, Lack of transparency, Systemic failure
MONTICELLO — The Village of Monticello is suffering cash-flow problems and its financial operations are rife with shoddy record keeping and at risk of fraud, the state Comptroller’s Office said in a draft audit criticizing village officials’ oversight of...8 Jan 2014 | Incomplete records, Lack of transparency, Non-compliance
Officials in the city of Amsterdam are unable to properly assess and monitor the city’s financial condition due to inadequate, inaccurate and incomplete accounting records, according to an audit released today by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. DiNapoli’s...5 Jan 2014 | Exposed through audit, Inadequate Systems, Incomplete records, Lack of transparency
A report released last month by the inspector general for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development offered scathing criticism of the city’s handling of money intended to help low and moderate income residents and to eliminate slums or blight....9 Jul 2013 | Breakdowns in Accountability, Lack of transparency, Non-compliance, Operational Failures
The British engine maker denies claims by two former employees that it concealed records of defects in a “secret set of books”. Two former Rolls-Royce employees have alleged the engine maker “cut corners on quality control requirements” and...8 May 2013 | Breakdowns in Accountability, Incomplete records, Lack of transparency
On behalf of homeowners, a North Carolina public official s is holding 29 banks responsible for the mess he says they have created in his office. (Cases like Andrea Metcalf’s described here) are what prompted Jeff Thigpen, Guilford County’s Register of Deeds, to...14 Feb 2013 | Breakdowns in Accountability, Inadequate Systems, Lack of transparency, Non-compliance
Difficulties in retrieving poorly filed national documents threaten to hamper the work of the Judgement Debt Commission (JDC) as witnesses continue to plead for more time to search for and furnish the Commission with documents on judgement debt payments. At the public...
