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Government

Jul. 22, 2011

Audit finds corrections department lapses

The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation overpaid employee salaries and travel advances by millions of dollars, state Controller John Chiang says.


By Emily Green


Daily Journal Staff Writer


The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation overpaid employee salaries and travel advances by millions of dollars and its lack of administrative and accounting controls put it at serious risk for fraud and abuse, the state controller said in an audit released Wednesday.


Controller John Chiang's investigation reviewed records dated between July 1, 2009 and June 31, 2010, when the age...

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