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Follow the Money – Auditor Style
A county cashier once walked off with more than $600,000 because one person took the money, recorded it, and reconciled the drawer. Shogren argues the Auditor is the last independent checkpoint before public dollars leave the treasury — and that Clallam is still rubber-stamping missing grant checks, a $5 “fee” that functions like a tax, and a $303.50 recording charge that mostly funds Olympia. Follow the money, she writes, or wait for the next unlocked drawer.
“Trust is not an internal control.” — Washington State Auditor Pat McCarthy
That sentence is the whole job description of a county…
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