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A review of 25 people entered into the CalGang system by Santa Ana police showed that three were in the database without adequate justification. This could mean that hundreds across Orange County could be wrongfully entered.
Federal authorities demanded $270,000 in reimbursements after an audit found the county failed to properly inspect federally subsidized housing.
The supervisors’ action, which came at the request of county CEO Frank Kim, follows a highly critical audit of the harbor and the resignation of Harbor Director Brad Gross.
Dana Point Harbor Director Brad Gross retired Thursday following an audit that determined the county-owned Dana Point Marina Inn handed out steep discounts to high-level harbor and Dana Point city workers for hundreds of room nights.
The decision by a Transportation Authority board committee stems from the city’s spending of taxpayer money to take local senior citizens on gambling trips and winery tours.
Trips to casinos and wineries were some of the destinations that Santa Ana city officials improperly allowed under a public transportation service for seniors, according to a review by the Orange County Transportation Authority.
A review, sparked by revelations of prosecutorial misconduct involving a jailhouse informants system, found the office is significantly behind other local counties in the level of training provided to prosecutors.
Lost amid the attention grabbing findings of a scathing Great Park audit report was the fact that some of the most sensational earlier findings were officially withdrawn or replaced. A state investigation into the firm’s actions remains ongoing.
A request by a San Diego assemblywoman for an investigation into the multiple audits done on Irvine’s Great Park did not make it though a legislative audit committee.
In a move that had come to be expected, Orange County supervisors fired Performance Audit Director Philip Cheng Tuesday. Supervisors’ Chairman Todd Spitzer said he had frustrations with Cheng’s work.