Posts Tagged: audit

Ricardo Lara is viewed in the Capitol as something of a rising star — a trajectory that ironically was helped by the still-unfolding scandals involving the city of Bell, which is in his district.

During his first and only term in the Assembly, he was named chair of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, an

State health officials mismanaged a special child-protection program and violated the law when they contracted out for services instead of using in-house workers, the state’s top auditor reported in a sharply worded review.

State Auditor Elaine Howle said the state Department of Public Health and its predecessor, the Health Services Department, spent some $2.1