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Insufficient controls, improper reimbursements, and fraudulent funds highlighted a recap of audits from the primary quarter of this fiscal 12 months.

The Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s Workplace compiled the reviews from native and statewide companies to seek out points within the first quarter of fiscal 2025.

There have been three state companies with deficiencies. The Louisiana Division of Well being’s Ingesting Water Revolving Mortgage Fund was discovered to have insufficient controls over their monetary statements, leading to $855,606 in extra federal funds above the allowed finances.

Subsequent the Governor’s Workplace of Homeland Safety and Emergency Preparedness’ Public Help Program accredited reimbursement requests that have been out of the scope or price estimate by over $19 million.

This was additionally a results of insufficient controls and never being in compliance with relevant FEMA laws and steerage.

That very same workplace made comparable errors of their Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, with over $2.5 million reimbursed with out supporting documentation.

There have been three native companies with deficiencies as properly. Many of those have been outcomes of fraud.

Town of Bogalusa used ARPA funds to improperly pay bonuses to metropolis workers and officers to the tune of $468,125. Town additionally made improper go away payouts within the quantity of $368,132.

Within the case of the city of Mamou’s Savoy Medical Administration Corp., the fraud occurred accidently.

The group’s vendor was topic to a enterprise electronic mail compromise leading to a fraudulent modification to the fee directions. In consequence, the group wired money within the quantity of $226,330 to an unknown scammer posing as its vendor.

Calcasieu Parish Waterworks District No. 8 was the final governmental physique to have points in reporting.

It’s estimated that the district incurred a lack of money collections for billing and safety deposit funds within the quantity of $481,439 for the durations 2020 by 2023.

It seems that the plant supervisor and/or the workplace supervisor violated prison statutes by misappropriating buyer funds associated to safety deposits and month-to-month water utilization billing.

As well as, these actions compromised the district’s capability to correctly function the water system.