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The state auditor of Washington is an independently elected constitutional officer in the executive branch of the government of the U.S. state of Washington. Eleven individuals have held the office since statehood. The incumbent is Pat McCarthy, a Democrat and the first woman to occupy the office.
A new fraud report released July 1 by the Washington State Auditor’s Office showed that a management analyst with the Office of Administrative Hearings’ (OAH) fiscal department misappropriated ...
Welfare fraud is the act of illegally using state welfare systems by knowingly withholding or giving information to obtain more funds than would otherwise be allocated. This article deals with welfare fraud in various countries of the world, and includes many social benefit programs such as food assistance, housing, unemployment benefits ...
State Representative John Rogers (D) convicted of wire and mail fraud. (2024) [1] State Representative David Cole (R) convicted of voter fraud and served 60 days in jail. (2023) [2] [3] Fred Plump (D) State Representative pled guilty to criminal conspiracy and obstruction of justice. He repaid $200K and was forced to resign.
The misappropriation is the largest from any state agency in at least 15 years, according to the State Auditor’s Office. WA State Auditor’s Office finds fraud of nearly $900,000 at state ...
Electronic benefit transfer (EBT) is an electronic system that allows state welfare departments to issue benefits via a magnetically encoded payment card used in the United States. It reached nationwide operations in 2004. Benefits provided via EBT are of two types: food and cash.
The man who did, Quin said, is John Davis, the state’s welfare director, who pleaded guilty to federal fraud and theft charges in September 2022 but has yet to be sentenced. Anna Wolfe. (NBC News)
The Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) is Washington's social services department. The agency has its headquarters in Office Building Two (OB-2) in Olympia , the state capital. [ 1 ] Annually, 2.2 million children, families, vulnerable adults and seniors come to the department for protection, comfort, food assistance, financial aid ...