KPMG finds NOAA's administration of fund "neither transparent nor conducive to accountability." Inspector General Todd Zinser has released his office's report on the NOAA Fisheries Enforcement Asset Forfeiture Fund.
According to the report:
The Inspector General (IG) determined that despite the Office of Law Enforcement (OLE) reporting a balance of $8.4 million as of December 31,2009, OLE officials could not provide evidence that the AFF had ever been audited. Accordingly, the IG commissioned a major public accounting and auditing firm, KPMG, to conduct a forensic review of the collection of fines and penalties into, and expenditures from, the Asset Forfeiture Fund (AFF).
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