Tag: State Auditor
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Connect for Health Colorado has serious financial management problems, audit says
Worries that the quasi-governmental agency that operates Colorado’s official state-based health insurance marketplace was spending money for political purposes turned out to be unfounded, according to a new audit. But the state audit found that Connect for Health Colorado has serious problems with its financial management, including a lack of oversight on the use of…
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State audit: Colorado Department of Transportation’s $4.1 billion in spending lacked sound policies
Since 2012, the Colorado Department of Transportation spent $4.1 billion on construction projects that bypassed strict low-bid practices, but while doing so the state agency lacked sound policies guiding such spending, which resulted in statutory violations and payments above fair market value, a Colorado state auditor report concluded. The performance audit, requested by Republican legislators…
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Colorado gaming division points to pandemic in regulation glitches
Colorado Division of Gaming officials early Tuesday responded to a critical audit from the Office of the State Auditor, saying the pandemic impacted its ability to roll out legalized sports betting in Colorado. The state auditor issued a scathing audit Monday of how the division regulated the first full year of legal sports betting in…
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State fraud hotline generates investigations that rarely see light of day
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado auditors have been investigating for more than two years whether fraud occurred at the Colorado’s Secretary of State’s Office when Wayne Williams headed it as an elected official. Williams, a Republican who lost his re-election bid for secretary of state in 2018 and is…
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Results of fraud audit into Colorado judicial misconduct memo may never become public
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Supreme Court this week handed over for investigation to the Colorado State Auditor’s Office a memo detailing nearly two dozen instances of judicial and administrator misconduct at the heart of an alleged $2.72 million hush money contract scandal, but the public may never…
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Lawsuit may shed light on misconduct allegations in state’s judicial department
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal lawsuit alleging discriminatory hiring practices at the Colorado Supreme Court is poised to shed light on the recent allegation that former Chief Justice Nathan “Ben” Coats and other court employees gave a contract worth up to $2.75 million to a former judicial employee…