Weaknesses in financial oversight repeatedly plague local governments, fostering the conditions for questionable expenses, improper payments and theft, an investigation by The Star has found.
The Missouri State Auditor has forwarded its findings from an audit of the Carroll County Ambulance District to the FBI for a possible criminal investigation.
A complaint by its board of directors led to the discovery of more than $90,000 in misappropriated funds from the Carroll County Ambulance District, according to a Missouri State Auditor’s Office.
Jeff Tindle has an ambulance sitting on his driveway that he would like to use.
The chief executive of Carroll County Memorial Hospital could have used it the time he drove an appendicitis patient in need of emergency surgery to another hospital in his Suburban because he said the Carroll County Ambulance District refused to do the transfer.
Or the time in October when a Carrollton police officer had to give an 18-year-old with a broken hand and an uncertain COVID-19 status a ride to the hospital because the same ambulance district did not respond to the scene.
Or the time in September when a Carrollton police captain made the 110-mile round trip to a hospital in Warrensburg to drive an emotionally disturbed patient who needed a transport because the ambulance district wouldn t do it, citing manpower issues, according to police records.