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State auditors have found that discrepancies in the court’s accounts total around 14 million.  One account in city ledgers is nearly 11 million short, while another account is shown to be over by around 3 million.  The error is being blamed on decades old computer system which is planned to be replaced by January 2009.

When asked, State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said these discrepancies have existed for decades, continuing on to say that it would be “virtually impossible to untangle these records, some of which are hand written receipts from the courts”.

Department officials told auditors that they do not perform a reconciliation to resolve the discrepancies because the system used to calculate the ledger account is antiquated, unreliable and inaccurate.  Tax money at work.

Tags: audit, bail, bakruptcy, court, money, payments, taxes

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