Audit finds former attorney general paid 26 employees more than line-item salary appropriation for their positions in 2022

LITTLE ROCK -- Then-Attorney General Leslie Rutledge paid 26 of the office's employees a total of $69,055 in excess of the line-item salary appropriation under Act 45 of 2021 for their positions in fiscal year 2022 that ended June 30, 2022, and that conflicts with Article 16, Section 4 of the Arkansas Constitution, according to Arkansas Legislative Audit.

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