NEBRASKA AUDITOR: FINANCIAL WRONGDOING IN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS SEEMS ‘INCREASINGLY COMMONPLACE’

LINCOLN — After Nebraska State Auditor Mike Foley issued a recent statement exposing alleged financial improprieties involving several local governments, he said his office faced a surge of callers requesting probes of their towns, too.It’s a common response, Foley said, after news hits of a small-town investigation by the auditor. 

“The phone starts ringing,” he said, repeating a common refrain: “‘Hey look at us. Look what’s happening in my village or county too.’” While grateful for the interest, Foley said such complaints are “disconcerting” in that they could signal rising misuse of public resources in smaller public entities across Nebraska. He said the alerts also “distract” from one of his office’s other main tasks, bird-dogging the “mega agencies” of state government.

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