With the passion of a fast-food franchisor, Scrushy audits his clinics, and not only to find bookkeeping irregularities.
BEHIND THE NEWS Auditors found lax bookkeeping and outlandish spending at the charity, which burned through $3.8 million of the $18 million it raised ($11 million of it Madonna's) without managing so much as to break ground.
Mr. Matthews also found that his bookkeeping skills, which would be needed for the job, left much to be desired.
Still, Republican leaders say that Mr. Weitzman uses his office to go after agencies run by Republicans, like some of the special sanitary districts in the Town of Hempstead, where Mr. Weitzman says that he found waste, chaotic bookkeeping and excessive costs to homeowners.
Inspectors found no sign of bookkeeping, payroll records or company stationery, according to their report.
It said that the bookkeeping problems it found raised "significant questions about the accuracy and reliability of LIPA's financial reporting".
In Mr. Brown's case, the federal investigation began after a city Board of Elections and Ethics report last July found discrepancies in his 2008 campaign bookkeeping.
In two visits to the church, one in the summer of 1999 and the other early this year, the diocese's financial officers found what they now call inappropriate bookkeeping and transactions, and began questioning the church's financial secretary -- Monsignor Gradilone.
Consider Octavio Solorio, an actor who spent years cobbling together a living from TV and film jobs, voice-over work and bookkeeping, but who finally found that he could no longer afford to pay for his apartment in Chatsworth.
An internal investigation initially found tens of millions of dollars of bookkeeping discrepancies — and the amount quickly ballooned.
