The manager’s credit card charges cover expenses ranging from hotel rooms to Uber rides. The audit says it shows “inadequate or non-existent internal controls as there are transactions that are in direct violation of the City’s purchasing card policy.” However, the lack of paper trails does not prove fraud or abuse, it says.
Hugh Lessig
Hugh Lessig worked for the Daily Press in Newport News for 23 years. He covered local government, the administrations of three Virginia governors and the Hampton Roads military community. He embedded with the U.S. Navy as part of the humanitarian response to the Haiti earthquake in 2010 and spent two weeks in pre-war Ukraine on a journalist exchange program. Now semi-retired, he lives in Hampton with his partner, Shana, and their three dogs. His debut crime novel was released in 2023 by Crooked Lane Books.