Carmelo Garcia's audit violations revealed!

Full details/story:
http://www.hobokenhorse.com/2014/07/hha-audit-findings-spell-trouble-for.html

Among the more than a dozen and a half serious problems delineated in the HHA Audit Report:

• Five vendors were paid over $26,000 where a bid process is mandatory under law
• None of the five vendors fulfilled a required sealed bid requirement
• Two of the five above vendors were paid over $100,000
• "Questioned costs" totaled over $573,000
• Payments to numerous vendors was out of compliance with prices authorized by the HHA Board of Commissioners
• The HHA accounting department was "unable to print a vendors history report" 
• One vendor overpaid without contract authorization exceeded $753,000
• The partial period of emergency is no excuse for the excessive unauthorized payments
• All contracts should be properly reviewed when reaching 70% of approved contract expenditure
• Fiscal controls relating to HHA procurement are not "as required" by law
• No emergency procurement reports were filed with the state as required under law
• The HHA is "not in compliance" with state and federal procurement laws and regulations.
• Detailed required bills submitted for payment to the HHA examined lacked required vendor certifications in all examples examined.
• Internal control over aspects of procurement are "ineffective"
• More than $100,000 in expenditures with the illicit use of a credit or store card
• Section 8 files contained major problems and are "materially incomplete"
• Costs deemed problematic connected to Section 8 can't be fully determined due to the lack of required documentation
• The HHA is "not in compliance" with the Housing Choice Voucher Program and the Low Rent Public Housing Program regulations