Darien Schools’ special education record-keeping has been strewn with errors and inaccuracies for years, leading to additional auditing costs to sort through the mess as the district continues to determine and implement best accounting practices.
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Category Archives: Forensic Audit
Auditors find litany of problems with special ed forms
Auditors tasked with scrutinizing Darien Schools’ excess cost reimbursements for special education services have found so many problems that they are saying it will take three or four times the amount of effort and time to determine how deep the problems go.
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Auditors lay out plan for Darien dissection
Auditors CohnReznick will begin its audit into Darien’s special education excess cost grants sometime in the coming days. Performing the audit will be CohnReznick partner Joseph Centofanti and manager Melissa Ferrucci.
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Forensic auditor hired to examine special ed expenses
Town financiers hired one of the nation’s largest accounting firms to perform a forensic audit into the school district’s expense reimbursements from the state for special education costs.
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Finance board: If there’s fraud, we will find it
While the town teemed with ghosts and goblins making their trick-or-treat rounds, a room full of Darien’s most powerful public figures sat to discuss how to engage a forensic audit into the school district’s special education grant applications.
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Fraud in Darien? Audit could reveal district applied for money for undelivered services
Allegations have surfaced that could implicate a variety of school officials in yet another piece of a complicated and growing puzzle stemming from a crisis in the special education program.
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