Brickbat: Bookkeeping Error

An audit has found that nearly $900,000 of about $1.13 million in COVID-19 relief funds received by the city of West Haven, Connecticut, were spent on ineligible items or lacked sufficient documentation. Auditors did not examine some $600,000 in COVID-19 funds received by the city that are the subject of a federal fraud prosecution. Former Democratic state Rep. Michael DiMassa, who was an administrative assistant to the city council, and his former business associate John Bernardo were charged with wire fraud in October. Prosecutors said they stole $600,000 in COVID-19 funds by submitting fraudulent invoices to the city through a company they formed.

Comments

[Jerryskids]

If you're going to have wasteful spending, it needs to be properly documented wasteful spending.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

And by properly documented we mean using social justice criteria.

[Cyto]

Auditors found that $900k was fraudulent or insufficiently documented.

They did not examine $600k that is part of a criminal case.

900 + 600 is $1.5 million.

There was only $1.13 million awarded to the city.

Holy crap!! They spent 40% more than they were awarded... All fraudulently!?!?

[Unicorn Abattoir]

40% inflation? Sounds right.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Math is racist!

[markm23]

It doesn't say that there was only 1.13 million, it says that they audited 1.13 million this time - not including the 600K of fraud previously uncovered:

600K Not checked again because it's already in a criminal case.
900K More that's suspect.
213K Seems OK
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1,713K Total

There could have been more that was cleared in the earlier investigation - the article just doesn't say. If it didn't come from "journalists", I'd assume that "didn't say" = "wasn't any more", but...

[Fist of Etiquette]

To be fair that money wasn't really about COVID.

[mad.casual]

Money with COVID not of COVID.

[Longtobefree]

But the purpose of the Communist Chinese Virus spending was to spend!
They put as much of the money into the economy as anyone else!

[TJJ2000]

Nothing digs the roots of National Socialism(Nazism) faster than a crumbling economy and nothing crumbles an economy faster than National Socialism(Nazism).

Ref; Venezuela, Detroit, etc, etc, etc......
The USA is plowing like a freight train towards utter destruction....
All because everyone stopped caring about the very definition of the USA being about Individual Liberty and Justice for all.

[TJJ2000]

It's funny anyone thinks this matters. The Gun-Toting gang of criminals robbed you blind and are now pretending to be principled..

The U.S. Constitution never gave the federal government authority to ROB their citizens blind and share it with their crony government friends... WHY their is a specific list of enumerated powers which constitutes exactly WHAT they can spend their robbery on... And for the most part is only to maintain a United States National Defense. That's the ONLY reason the States/Colonies joined a UNION was to have a powerful Common Defense!!!

So when you have an democratically elected Anti-American/USA Nazi-Regime of politicians running a Nation and aggressively violating "The People's" law over them (their very sworn oath of office) --- What did people think would happen????

It's like democratically electing all the bank robbers from Alcatraz prisoners to run a bank... If politicians don't even acknowledge the law over them or compulsively make promises to break that law; why in the world would anyone think any other law or principle would be upheld????????

[TJJ2000]

Because lets face it; Federal elections for over half of the citizens today is about voting for the ARMED CRIMINAL that promised to ROB all the Productive Peters and share that STOLEN bag of Labor Production items with them.

Sometimes one has to wonder if an election in Prison wouldn't have more principle to it than the National Elections.

Once the party of slavery; Still the party of slavery.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Democratic state Rep. Michael DiMassa, who was an administrative assistant to the city council, and his former business associate John Bernardo were charged with wire fraud in October. Prosecutors said they stole $600,000 in COVID-19 funds by submitting fraudulent invoices to the city through a company they formed.

Amateurs.

/NJ Politicians.