Audit Questions 80% of West Haven [Conn.}’s COVID Expenditures
Associated Press | April 1, 2022A new forensic audit of more than $1 million in COVID-19 relief funds spent by the city of West Haven indicates approximately 80% of the expenditures should not have been allowed. That doesn’t include the hundreds of thousands of dollars a former state lawmaker and others are accused of stealing from the city.
The problematic expenditures – nearly $900,000 of about $1.13 million reviewed by the auditors – were largely ineligible expenses or lacked sufficient justification and documentation.
West Haven Mayor Nancy Rossi, a Democrat, said in a text message to The Associated Press that she had just received the report and still needed review it.
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