Internal Controls And Compliance Of The Metropolitan Council

2) Frank A. Tassone; the former business manager, Pamela Gluckin; and an accounting clerk, Debra Rigano, who is a niece of Ms. Gluckin embezzled money in a scheme in which Dr. Tassone and Ms. Gluckin and nine of their family members and friends charged $5.9 million for personal items and cash advances on 74 personal credit cards. Then Ms. Gluckin and Dr. Tassone used district checks to pay those bills. The audit found that Dr. Tassone and

The senior finance officer in the firm was responsible for any decisions that dealt with making donations to charities, moreover, that officer controlled political contributions as well

The two most pressing issues that Greenhill Community Center Face are communication and fundraising. The most important thing in organizational structure is communication. John Carver, created a governance model back in 1997, said there were four areas that policy development should be based on and maintained for a board to lead. One of the areas is Board-Staff relationships. Carter stated that to clearly address common concerns about board members evaluating the CEO is to communicate directly with the staff or volunteers within the organization. (Worth, p.75) The relationship between the staff and board members of the Greenhill Community Center is strained and distant. Fundraising is an integral part of

“March of Dimes” charity was in news in November ’15, because of an alleged fraud committed by one of its employees named Ms. Karima Manji. Karima Manji has been working with MOD since 2005. She has been handling the portfolio of property manager and used to look after MOD’s non-profit residences. She is alleged to have used “various means” to siphon funds from the charity, including forging invoices and expense claims, and funnelling money into a false March of Dimes bank account. She has been charged with fraud over $5,000, theft over $5,000, possession of property obtained by a crime over $5,000 and presenting a forged document. She also served as the executive director of Kingsmere retirement living in Alliston and has been placed on administrative leave after being charged by Toronto police of allegedly defrauding MOD of $0.8 Mn. Officials at MOD has confirmed of ongoing investigation into the incident and those of Kingsmere retirement living have stated that “Manji’s employment is not linked to her involvement with MOD’s”.

Another example of this is in New York City, where a "hospital for special surgery, paid Cassidy 140,000 dollars and obtained a 1 million dollar grant from HRSA" (Zeller 2006). This is what lobbyist companies are able to do they receive a sum from their customer and then in return try and give them a lot of government money. This affected Texas because not every time someone gives a lobbying group money are they guaranteed to receive anything in return. One of Cassidy 's clients were the president at the University of Dallas, and what probably took place is that they did not get the federal funding at one of the universities in the state and now the accountant or comptroller begins to wonder why public universities are giving a lobbying group in Washington so much money and getting nothing back, so she pulls the plug on allowing them to receive any more money. Cassidy certainly has not shied away from looking shady with their business. In the nineties they hired as CEO a man named Marty Pusso and he was "vice chairman of the house ways and means health subcommittee, which has jurisdiction over numerous healthcare issues and programs" (Zeller 2006). Being the Vice Chairman as well as CEO of a lobbying company that "in 1999 received 1.3 million dollars from 10 hospitals" (Zeller 2006) seems to create a conflict of interest problem or in Pusso’s case a solution. Furthermore, this questions as to how

Fraud is a problem that nonprofits must be prepared to prevent within their financial departments. Embezzlements and financial statement fraud can destroy the financial health of a nonprofit organization and undermine the organization’s mission. Skimming is particularly difficult to identify because the money is often taken off incoming funds before the donations are ever annotated or accounted for (Zack & De Armond, 2015). However, these financial woes can be easily avoided. Nonprofit Quarterly identifies the issue of financial fraud as a “people problem” (Zack et al, 2015). Financial departments within corporations are required to follow strict laws and regulations that are not required to be followed by nonprofit organizations. The Sarbanes-Oxley

Scandals, profiteering, and corruption are nothing new when it comes to politics. Plunkitt of Tammany Hall and his political machines we're masters of such chicanery. The infamous Tammany Hall political machines dominated mid 19th century through 20th century politics in New York City. He explained in “Reciprocity in Patronage”, “what he says is, that you can’t keep an organization together without patronage. Men ain’t in politics for nothin’. They want something out of it” (47). Plunkitt was stern on patriotism, it came hand in hand with loyalty in his eyes. He got people to vote for who he wanted by making them see him as their savior. He accomplished that by placing people who were homeless with

The purpose of this paper is to comprehensively compare and contrast the implementation of two types of mayor-council government systems which are that of the weak-mayor type of the mayor council system and the strong-mayor type of the mayor council system. The premise of the analysis which has been conducted in this paper is based upon assessing the local governments of two cities within the United States – Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Minneapolis, Minnesota which follow the adoption of a strong-mayor system and weak-mayor system respectively.

Public Finance is the role of government in the economy. Transparency and accountability in government financial management is crucial. The reading, “Understanding New York City’s Budget” references that due to government spending of taxpayer money to operate various services, several checks and balances such as Audits, City Council Oversight, Mayor’s Management Report (MMR), and Program Evaluation were put in place for accountability. The adherence to policy, procedures, rules, regulations and laws are important when compliance and integrity is the goal.

In 2008 the New Castle Town Council appointed an eleven-member Steering Committee made up of local residents, business interests, and members of the Planning Commission and Town Council to guide a new vision for the long-term growth and development of the community. This effort was in response to pending growth pressures, for which the community was not fully prepared. After some months and considerable community input, the Planning Commission recommended and the Town Council adopted the Town of New Castle Comprehensive Plan on May 27, 2009.

The Bell California corruption was a scandal in a small blue collar community involving city officials that misappropriation of public funds by increasing property taxes and using voter fraud. These official were a greedy criminal who created large salaries for themselves. According to Bell City Council stated that Robert Rizzo was the ringleader in the alleged corruption. The Council collected a total of $1.3 million by serving on the committee that did not exist. For those that serve on the board and increase their salary to $100,000 a year working part-time only which included retirement and medical benefits. In reality, the board did not perform any duties except 34 minutes was given for a brief meeting in which they talk about increasing

The local government of Bell is a small local city on the outskirts of Los Angeles, where the city councilman was being compensated for meetings which lasted no more than five minutes and the city manager of Bell earned close to 800,000 dollars one year and received an increase to 1.5 million with added benefits (Freeman, M., 2012). Moreover, in 2009 Bell’s city manager and city officials billed the city for an extremely high amount of money for brief meetings of different legislative bodies such as planning commission or housing authority (Freeman, M., 2012). Example of these abnormal amounts was in 2009 the councilman members was paid 8,000 dollars a month for those meetings, and holding multiple meetings for five different legislative bodies all meeting not lasting more than three minutes and they were getting paid for each

One of the things that I have seen happen repeatedly is that some Executive Directors truly “fall in love” with their agency and fail to adjust to the needs of the stakeholders. One of the things that nonprofits need to do is to learn from the

There is a problem that has been presented to Board of Directors that poses a danger to overall well being of the organization. The issue is one that could cause temporary as well as permanent damage to the relationship of the department and the community. The corruption is that which is believed to be taking place in the Oakland County Sheriffs department. The concern that Anderson has provided seems substantial and is something I felt the urge to share. Anderson is a hard working taxpayer, so he has an obligation to report misuse of funds, seeing that his hardworking money is potentially misused by the leaders.

Shared governance is important to compliance in order to keep all staff accountable for compliance measures. Shared governance is an organizational model that gives all management and staff control over their actions and practices and extends the influence of administrative areas (Hess, 2004). Giving all managers a voice can help improve governance compliance and operations by promoting teamwork and accountability among staff throughout the entire organization.