As readers will recall, Independent Forensic Accountant Tiffany Couch raised a few eyebrows and caught the attention of legislators, business owners and taxpayers when she released her independent analysis of the CRC's handling of taxpayer dollars so far. The release of her report, covered
here showed several irregularities in just how monies have been spent and accounted for, leaving several questions unanswered.
For full audio and the Powerpoint Slide presented by Ms. Couch, please visit
Couv.com
As could be expected, CRC supporters began dismissing and marginalizing the Independent Forensic Analysis almost immediately with the Columbian, a long time cheerleader for the project publishing numerous articles in favor of the CRC, including supposed benefits to the community.
Most notably among the long time supporters is Democrat 49th legislative district representative, Jim ‘da candyman’ Moeller stating, “In a project of such huge scale and complexity, at least some errant billing and bookkeeping is inevitable,,, I’m not worried that there has been fraud or malfeasance at any step along the way,,, the project has operated transparently.”
Moeller went on say, “I think that Tiffany is doing the job she was hired to do, and that’s stop the project.”
Of all of those wishing to minimize what Ms. Couch uncovered, ‘candyman’ seem to be the most critical of her personally and his cavalier attitude over accounting irregularities has not set well with the community, prompting letters to the editors of the Columbian
here,
here and
here.
The last link is to an LTE by small business owner Dave Joliette of Vancouver who finds Moeller’s cavalier attitude completely unacceptable and expressed more than what the letter published can show due to limitation on length of all letters submitted to the Columbian.
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