SC auditor resigns

SC auditor resigns after outside audit found $1.8 billion ‘surplus’ was actually an accounting error
South Carolina’s State Auditor George Kennedy resigned on Wednesday after an outside audit found what was thought to be a $1.8 billion surplus in the state’s budget was actually an accounting error.
SC auditor tangled up in $1.8B accounting error resigns
State Auditor George Kennedy's resignation follows the 2023 resignation of former Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom.
SC auditor resigns following release of report on nonexistent $1.8B surplus
The state auditor for South Carolina announced his immediate resignation Thursday, just over a week after the release of a forensic report on an alleged $1.8 billion surplus.
SC state auditor resigns amid federal investigation into multibillion-dollar accounting errors
Two of South Carolina’s financial officers have now resigned in the wake of multibillion-dollar accounting blunders that prompted a federal securities investigation. State Auditor George Kennedy submitted his resignation Thursday in a letter to the state’s five-member fiscal oversight panel.
SC’s state auditor resigns from job amid controversy over state’s $1.8B accounting error
South Carolina State Auditor George Kennedy III and outside independent auditor Remi Omisore, a principal at CliftonLarsonAllen, speak to a Senate Finance subcommittee about the comptroller general’s office $3.5 billion financial reporting error. Joseph Bustos [email protected]
South Carolina State Auditor resigns from office
George Kennedy, South Carolina’s State Auditor, resigned from office Thursday. Read more: I was in the packed hall at Davos to hear Trump speak. The audience went from laughter to silence in seconds.
South Carolina state auditor resigns amid $1.8 billion accounting scandal
South Carolina auditor George L. Kennedy has resigned following allegations his office failed to report billions of dollars worth of accounting errors.

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