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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

So Where Is The $32,500 Lisbon Police Chief David T. Brooks,??? FRAUD Right Here In Maine!!!

Don't YOU Realize That Some One Must Pay For This?

It Would Go A Very Long Way In Helping To Heat OUR Elderly and Needed In OUR TOWN This Winter,,, Don't YOU THINK???

Oh That IS Right You Are Still Looking Into It And LIEING About The Facts Along With Eldridge, Correct?

Eldridge Fudd

Raiding the town till: Corruption in small-town Maine costs taxpayers $800K in past five years

By Kate McCormick, Contributing writer @Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting

Published on Wednesday, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:12 am | Last updated on Wednesday, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:12 am

A Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting examination has found that over the past five years, at least $800,000 has been taken from municipal coffers across Maine in the form of money or services by local officials whose job was to faithfully and honestly serve their towns. And this has often come at steep cost to the towns, not only in missing money but in added fees and charges, not to mention hard feelings.

Eric Conrad, spokesman for the MMA, said, “We want to emphasize that we’ve seen no data indicating an upward trend in municipal embezzlement cases. These things happen rarely.” JOKE!!!

Experts say a lack of training in financial record-keeping and uneven oversight by town officials have contributed to the problem. The thefts primarily occurred in the smaller towns among the nearly 500 Maine municipalities, where there may be few people available to furnish the second pair of eyes that could see every town transaction.

And, he said, the annual audit “shouldn’t be the only means for looking at fraud.”
He added, “The purpose of an audit is to render an opinion on whether the financials have been fairly stated.”
In other words, an audit won’t necessarily find problems if someone has made an effort to hide them.

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