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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: Audit BOMBSHELL: King County Parks at HIGH RISK of Wasting MILLIONS in Tax Dollars
Description: King County Parks just admitted they can't track where $100 million in taxpayer grants actually went. The funding exploded from $3 million to $20 million—seven times larger—but somehow nobody thought to update their oversight systems. Sound familiar? This is the same playbook we saw with California's $24 billion homeless spending black hole and the Minnesota Somali daycare fraud scandal. When auditors say they can't verify if grants are being used properly, that's government-speak for "we have no idea, but we're hoping for the best." Meanwhile, Seattle's new mayor won't even investigate fraud allegations. Nothing to see here, folks! Is this incompetence or i...