Los Angeles County Auditor-Controller - Foster Care Provider Audits - 2011

Collection includes financial and compliance audits that reveal numerous financial improprieties among a majority of the foster care contractors reviewed. These include "loans" to providers, the lack of proper accounting procedures for expenditures, delinquent payroll taxes, and in some instances a lack of cash reserves to maintain operations notwithstanding monthly payments in excess of $5 k per child, and annual payments in excess of $1 m.