The Columbus Dispatch | Marty Schladen At least four local governments in Ohio have credit cards whose limits are $1 million or more. Two have limits north of $5 million. And, according to a recent survey, almost half of local governments do not have a list of allowable credit-card expenses for employees, and 10 percent have no

The Columbus Dispatch The Ohio Department of Education’s lackadaisical progress in holding accountable Columbus City Schools’ administrators who cooked the books on student test performance feeds suspicion that the state was negligent — asleep at the wheel — in a cheating scheme that extended to other districts. None carried out a plan as calculated and

The Columbus Dispatch | Catherine Candisky A North Side charter school that shut its doors in 2015, stranding about 300 students, has not repaid the $340,770 it owes the state, according to an audit released Thursday by state Auditor Dave Yost. The FCI Academy was closed in August 2015, just prior to the start of

The Columbus Dispatch | Randy Ludlow Expressing concern about public officials’ unwillingness to justify spending, state Auditor Dave Yost has instructed his staff to gather “additional facts” about millions of dollars in no-bid state contracts uncovered by The Dispatch. An investigation by The Dispatch, published Sunday, revealed that Ohio Department of Administrative Services officials have

The Columbus Dispatch | Dean Narciso Employees of a southern Ohio correctional facility misspent more than $20,000 in public funds, forged receipts and stole property, state investigators have found. A special audit of the STAR Community Justice Center in Scioto County by the Ohio Auditor’s office that began in 2015 showed that 11 employees —

Cleveland Plain Dealer | Jeremy Pelzer COLUMBUS, Ohio–Ohio Republicans on Wednesday urged U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown to rethink his opposition to Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch and allow a Senate confirmation vote. “There’s an old proverb that says a fool judges a matter before he’s heard it,” said state Auditor Dave Yost, a candidate for

The Toledo Blade | Jim Provance COLUMBUS — State-issued electronic food-stamp cards would include photos of their primary beneficiaries under a bill that is aimed primarily at those who trade the federally funded cards for cash or drugs. States such as Maine and Massachusetts already have moved in this direction. “This is one of the

The Columbus Dispatch | Dean Narciso, Jim Siegel Things aren’t all bad for Ohio’s counties and cities, but some are in danger of falling off a financial cliff, according to a new analysis by state Auditor Dave Yost designed to predict future budget troubles. Yost unveiled new searchable online reports Wednesday that scores Ohio’s 247

The Repository | Robert Wang The Ohio House on Tuesday approved Senate changes to a local legislator’s bill that provides a new process to remove a county auditor or treasurer for misconduct. The bill is in response to a legal battle to remove then-Stark County Treasurer Gary Zeigler in 2010 and 2011. House Bill 10,

WKYC | Amir Samarghandi Dead people, duplicates and out-of-state purchases were just some of the fraudulent activities discovered in an audit of Ohio’s food stamp program, according to a release by State Auditor David Yost. Yost’s audit of Ohio’s $2.5 billion Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) released Tuesday found weaknesses — including $24,406 for dead