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$275,000 vanishes from retirees account, transferred to the state of California “It’s just pure theft!” Eugene Breznock said. Because the Winters couple didn’t touch their account for three years, or have any contact with Charles Schwab, the state required Schwab to transfer their investments to the state’s Unclaimed Property program for safe keeping. But now Eugen can’t get his property back because the assets are labeled “incomplete” on the state’s website. The state blames ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: First, the good news: every municipality in North Carolina is eligible to receive a large cash infusion, up to 75% of its budget, from the American Rescue Plan (ARP). Now, the less than good news: all municipalities, other than a handful of metropolitan cities with populations over 50,000, should be working May 18, 2021, or perhaps on a slightly later date. Metropolitan cities and other governments can apply directly on the U.S. Tre...

Friday, May 14, 2021 First, the good news: every municipality in North Carolina is eligible to receive a large cash infusion, up to 75% of its budget, from the American Rescue Plan (ARP). Now, the less than good news: all municipalities, other than a handful of metropolitan cities with populations over 50,000, should be working  May 18, 2021, or perhaps on a slightly later date.  Metropolitan cities and other governments can apply directly on the U.S. Treasury portal. Even though a ...

California Controller Wrote 49 Million Checks, but Claims She Can’t Locate Any of Them News Analysis As California state controller, Betty Yee’s job includes being “responsible for accountability and disbursement of the state’s financial resources,” according to her office’s official website. Yee’s office issued 49 million checks in payments worth $320 billion in 2018 in her capacity as “chief fiscal officer” for the state whose economy is the fifth-largest in the entire world...

Humboldt County Audit Committee Held Its First Meeting … and the Auditor-Controller was Absent Members of the Humboldt County Audit Committee with advisory staff and other county employees. | Screenshot of Zoom meeting. Humboldt County’s fiscal management has been a hot mess in recent months, with chronically delayed reports, payments and other transactions causing headaches for county employees, department heads and outside vendors.  Paz Dominguez. | File image (screenshot). In an effort ...

Woman Pleads Guilty to Filing False Claims for Unclaimed Property Details Written by FBI Sacramento, California - Marilyn Cook (aka Marilyn Powell and Marilyn Sunset), 58, of Alcoa, Tennessee, pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud in relation to a scheme to obtain unclaimed property held by the California State Controller’s Office Unclaimed Property Division, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, in August and Septembe...

The state has lost more than 8,500 licensed child care sites in the last year and three in ten jobs in child care have been lost during the pandemic.  Advocates say the sting from those closures hasn’t truly been felt, but will be when the economy fully reopens and parents start to look for care that is no longer there. That’s why child care providers are so frustrated by the slow process and point to federal stimulus payouts to Americans in need  that happened seemingly overnight. For S...

Punch Newspapers Sections Adelani Adepegba, Jesusegun Alagbe, Kayode Oyero and Chidiebube Okeoma Published 2:22 am Adelani Adepegba, Jesusegun Alagbe, Kayode Oyero and Chidiebube Okeoma Published 2:22 am The Nigerian Correctional Service has released the names and photos of some of the inmates who escaped during a jailbreak in Owerri, Imo State capital. Gunmen had in the early hours of Monday attacked the Correctional Centre at Owerri, releasing 1,844 inmates from the facility. The gunmen als...

Inmates unrest: Bauchi Correctional Officer nabbed for trafficking On By Omeiza Ajayi The Bauchi State Command of the Nigeria Correctional Service, NCoS, has arrested one of its personnel for smuggling a phone into the Bauchi Custodial Centre. The development had caused violent unrest at the facility as inmates who were to benefit from the smuggling engaged other correctional officers for bursting the deal. Command Public Relations Officer, DSC Adam Abubakar Jibrin disclosed this in a stateme...

### The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday once again addressed financial reporting matters at the center of a conflict between the County Administrative Office and the office of Auditor-Controller Karen Paz Dominguez. Today’s discussion was a sequel of sorts to a special board meeting back in November when supervisors Virginia Bass and Rex Bohn sounded the alarm over “operational gaps” in the county’s fiscal reporting. These gaps, according to staff, had placed the county...