Scope of Work
McLean, Koehler, Sparks and Hammond was retained by Mr. Ed Baker of Baker, Siedel and Tilghman, the attorney for Wicomico County Maryland ("County") to provide forensic accounting and fraud investigation services. Specifically, Mr. Baker requested us to quantify the financial losses suffered by the County as a result of employee thefts that occurred at the Solid Waste Facility ("Landfill") during the years 2005 - 2008. Read the actual report in its entirety. Investigative Report
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a total of $430,000.00 stolen, if these guys dont get jail time, its time for you to step down DAVIS. they should all have to work at the landfill to pay the tax-payers back.
ReplyDeleteBeings they're still in business will there be any restitution?
ReplyDeleteAs for lack of safeguards according to the report, does anybody in any government function or authority take a quick glimpse at any spreadsheet of bills and expenditures?
Or do they just whine about not having enough money and jack up taxes?
The report says employees don't have an abuse hotline.
Really?
People know how to comment anonymously on a blog but can't make an anonymous call to a higher-up?
Not your money,right?
b pinto
if i read that correctly does it nit suggest that theft may still be going on things that make you go hmmmmmmmmm!!!
ReplyDeleteI gathered the way things are set up it could set the stage for other theft and fraud to occur but at this time it was not the case. Time to spend some of that money bringing the 3rd ranked landfill in the country into the 21st century with state of the art equipment and software.
ReplyDeleteRay Lewis should lose all privilege of operating a business within the state of Maryland. The rest should suffer the same, in case they decide to start a business. They should all receive jail time and have to make restitution on top of paying the fees for the forensic auditors and any other costs incurred to the county.
Davis, SEND THEM ALL TO JAIL.
No New taxes for someone to steal.
ReplyDeleteI hear that train a comin ,comin round the bend, sorry got carried away. Just hummin the folsom prison blues.
If they dont go to prison someone else should ,the higher ups.
Just imagine a $430,ooo bonus in your pay check.
I guess they where laughing all the way to the bank.
i dont believe that you would be able to retain your state license if you are convicted of a felony. but then again thats another goverment agency, so who knows. he could just get the license in someone elses name and keep right on trucking. welcome to the state of maryland, no acountability anywhere in sight.
ReplyDeleteIt's now "formerly of Baker, Seidel and Tilghman."
ReplyDeleteMr. Baker now has a County position as its in house attorney and a big pension almost fully vested for simply coming on board the gravy train.
I sure hope Mr. Lewis doesn't walk---as is the word on the street.
ReplyDeleteWould be nice to see what the auditors would find as far as poor recordkeeping procedure for the city books!
What has been done with the city bookeeping to tighten up their procedures?
Nalagirl
Even if they found something in the city books nothing would be done. It's been proven over and over again, Barrie is above the law. No one from the Attorney General all the way down to local law enforcement will touch her. Salisbury is so f**ked it isn't even funny anymore.
ReplyDeleteYet, the daily rag joins up with Bubba is saying the city council shouldn't micromanage. I don't think they should HAVE to, but if the administration is not doing ITS job, just like this landfill deal, I'd like to think SOMEONE is paying attention to my money!
ReplyDeleteJust THINK about all the stuff Debbie Campbell and Terry Cohen have found and put the pressure on to do the right thing!
Nalagirl, I think the city has hired a special auditor to come look at how the finance dept. is run. That's another good thing Campbell and Cohen have done, especially since firing Pam Oland wasn't going to happen!
Pay attention: this is the Wicomico County Landfill, not the City of Salisbury Landfill. It has nothing to do with city book keeping. One does have to wonder how COUNTY officials higher up the food chain were able to sluff off a written, reported doubling of fuel use at the landfill in one year's time. Surely red flags should have been raised. Or maybe they were. Time will tell. Lewis needs to keep working so that he and the others involved can make restitution. That's not to say that he and others--particularly Townsend--should not get significant jail time. Hopefully the full facts presented during the trials for each person will show how much time is deserved, presuming each is convicted. After all, innocent until proven guilty. Right Joe?
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