The county comptroller is asking the Erie County Legislature to require that audited county departments and offices submit corrective action p…
With two audits of the Erie County Clerk's Office complete, finding internal fraud and embezzlement, the improper handling of some mortgage ta…
A second audit focused on the handling of mortgage taxes and found problems including thousands of dollars that were not properly distributed …
A check for $326,456 issued by the Erie County Clerk's Office to a state agency in March 2022 was intercepted, and a counterfeit check was mad…
The structural problem was clear: Insufficient oversight appears to have enabled brazen thievery.
Legislator Howard Johnson, D-Buffalo, said Kearns' defensiveness and lack of "urgency" in addressing the findings of Comptroller Kevin Hardwic…
Because of efforts within Hardwick's office, the loss of more than $114,000 in public money was discovered, drawing the involvement of the sta…