Thursday Column: Brad Pitt Never Had No Stinkin' Auditors

What we need here is George Clooney, Matt Damon and the rest of a charming movie cast to tell the story of this caper.

But we don’t have a glamorous cast. There is only a cast of extras, a list of faceless names who fade into the background of the years, blameless.

Here is the plot:

• The Florida Legislature creates a five-member board to privatize Florida’s prisons in 1993.

• The board (surprise!) does a sloppy job of overseeing contracts with private companies... [rest of column]

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Here's the 2005 audit that criticized the private prison board: [Download final_report.pdf]

Here's this week's FLDE report finding no criminal violations: [Download 062507_cpc_final_summary.pdf ]

Comments

[Fed Up]

This would not be the first FDLE investigation that was predetermined from the get-go. Those folks in Tallahassee are certainly "flexible" when it comes to taking instructions on how investigations are supposed to end!

So it's OK to take $$$ on a contract because the vendor knows it won't get "Dinged?' Sounds like grand theft to me. Sounds like official misconduct for the official who didn't want his or her pet vendor to get dinged. Isn't Florida great?

[Fed Up]

This would not be the first FDLE investigation that was predetermined from the get-go. Those folks in Tallahassee are certainly "flexible" when it comes to taking instructions on how investigations are supposed to end!

So it's OK to take $$$ on a contract because the vendor knows it won't get "Dinged?' Sounds like grand theft to me. Sounds like official misconduct for the official who didn't want his or her pet vendor to get dinged. Isn't Florida great?