State Auditor Tom Schweich announced today that his office has begun an audit of Department of Revenue contracted license offices. Pursuant to state law, the State Auditor may audit all records maintained and established by license offices in the same manner as the auditor may audit any agency of the state.
The Missouri Department of Revenue procures contract agents to operate 183 license offices in communities across the state. The audit will review the procurement of contract agents and the operating procedures of select license offices.
Persons who would like to provide information during the audit process are encouraged to contact the State Auditor's Office at 800-347-8597 or by email at moaudit@auditor.mo.gov.
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Monday, February 14, 2011
License fee offices to undergo state audits
Missouri license fee offices will be receiving a close examination in the near future. The following news release was issued this afternoon by the state auditor's office:
This bidding process was a total scam deal from the git go.
ReplyDeleteThe money-making offices went to Nixon's buddies....it didn't matter how much experience you had the deals were made long in advance. Everyone at DOR and OA knew how it would end up (except the honest bidders who didn't realize until they waded through the maze of rules and regulations and spent hours and hours complying with those rules and regulations only to have Nixon's point people at DOR and OA choose the "right" candidates). The good auditor should talk to those who didn't win the bids for the real picture here. Their complaints --- no matter how justified, fell on deaf ears. Many of those bids SHOULD have gone to the honest bidders.
Oh, and the non money making offices? Those got thrown back to the Republicans as a gesture of "bipartisan-ism". Who couldn't see through that bologna?
Too late now.
You are right, its a scam.
ReplyDeleteThe Branson Office has a fee agent that runs a private business from the fee office location. If you don't believe it, she has the name of it posted on the wall, its a title company.
Guess no one cares if she uses the states computers to do her own business with every day.
David Rust
The big offices went to Alternative Opportunites and other friends of the Governor. Alternative Opportunies got bonus points for being a non profit organization. But, Alternative Opportunites and their officers send multi million dollars of an ongoing management fee to a 'for profit' company listed on the stock exhange. The Alternative Opportunity officers, just happen to have sold the same management contract to the for profit company for the officers' benefit. That benefit is multi millions of dollars to the officers. What is non profit about that?
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