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Audit: $800K Suspiciously Spent By County Retirement Board On Raises, Travel, Scams, More
Some people are calling for the Chairman of the regional retirement board to resign after an audit found hundreds of thousands of dollars in suspicious expenditures - including $250,000 for “search engine optimization” on a state-run website. Other details that emerged from the audit include: Suspicious travel expenses on Cape Cod, Spending about $450,000 on health insurance and wages for two part-time attorneys who did not qualify for the benefit, and a raise for the chairman that no one seems to have authorized. The issue has been reported to enforcement agencies, said the audit’s auth…