‘The checkoffs are no longer a ’simple way to give.’

by Todd Shepherd
“Independence Investigates” has obtained internal emails from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) showing that a software control intended to prevent the payment of unemployment insurance to unqualified citizens as well as to illegal aliens was shut off in early 2009.

The emails dictate that former CDLE unemployment insurance director Mike Cullen [...]

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
by Todd Shepherd
April 15 may be long gone, but many Colorado CPAs and taxpayers are still feeling the tax man’s bite, thanks in part to a new software system installed at the Colorado Department of Revenue (DOR).
Bruce Nelson, a former DOR employee and a CPA with the accounting firm Ehrhardt, Keefe, Steiner, [...]

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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
by Todd Shepherd
In the middle of a phone-records battle with the Denver Post in 2008, Governor Ritter deactivated his state-issued cell phone, thereby choosing to make all of his mobile communications from a privately paid-for cell phone. [...]

Denver Human Services has no supporting documentation for $2.8 million expense
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
by Todd Shepherd
A new audit shows a child care program subsidized with state and federal dollars is plainly open to fraud and abuse. The report from the office of the state auditor provides examples of how both the child care providers, [...]

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
by Todd Shepherd
New documents reveal that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues to lose hundreds of computers per year. At least one DHS component agency maintains that the losses fall within accepted accounting standards.
In fiscal year 2008, inventories of lost, stolen, and damaged equipment show that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) [...]

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