California Homeless Fraud

Los Angeles Controller Kenneth Mejia says he was supposed to audit the missing homeless money He says he was going to do an honest audit so Democrats took the job away from him and hired an outside firm that doesn’t even do audits and paid them millions for different results The fraud is insane “How the City of Los Angeles spent millions of dollars to avoid transparency and accountability by, yours truly, Kenneth Mejia, your city controller. If you didn't know, the City of Los Angeles was sued over its homelessness efforts. And part of that case, the city had to undergo an audit. And instead of going with the independently elected city controller, who was the city's auditor, who actually would've done this for free, the city ended up spending nearly $3 million on an outside firm, who is not an audit firm” The audit comes back, Democrats still don’t like the results “So wow, here's another opportunity for oversight, and the plaintiffs suing the city actually recommended our office, the current city controller's office, to be a monitor. But the City of LA rejected that. They said, "Nope, not you again." And so, you know, my audit team, we have decades of experience in technical expertise, with data, of homelessness subject matter experts. We created the city's homelessness dashboard. We're also independent. So I thought, "Wow, this would've been perfect because we're al- we're already doing the work." But nope, the city decided that they are going to pick the former city controller, my predecessor. And so I thought, "Wow, it's not that they don't want the city controller, they don't want this city controller, me, Kenneth Mejia, the independent elected city controller that you all wanted me to bring that transparency and accountability."