Scathing report slams spending practices at Montreal’s Public Consultations Office
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Spending practices at Montreal's Public Consultations Office came under fire by the city's auditor general. The report details unjustified expenses and a lack of accountability.
Spending practices at Montreal’s Public Consultations Office (OCPM) came under fire Tuesday by the city’s auditor general.
The scathing report details unjustified expenses and a lack of accountability.
The report exposes large sums of money spent on meals, international travel and transportation and that about 80 per cent of the receipts to justify those expenses were missing.
The report concludes that the expenses were happened because there was a lack of oversight from the city of Montreal.
The audit was commissioned by Montreal last fall after a news report unveiled extravagant and unjustified expenses by the OCPM.
It covers the mandate of two of the OCPM’s presidents, Dominique Ollivier and Isabelle Beaulieu, who lost her job over the scandal.
Expenses include tens of thousands of dollars on dinners and wine justified as job interviews or meetings and an average of 7 international trips a year to promote the OCPM.
All on the dime of contributors.
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