Jun. 3, 2026
Federal audit faults Orange County DA's office over crime-victim grant oversight
District Attorney Todd Spitzer's office agreed to all seven of the auditors' recommendations but disputed the findings, arguing the state was responsible for monitoring the nonprofit and that the flagged costs went to legitimate victims.
The Orange County district attorney's office failed to adequately monitor a nonprofit it pays to run a federally funded crime-victim services program and charged the grant $2,925 in transportation costs that auditors flagged as potentially ineligible, according to a U.S. Department of Justice inspector general audit report released Tuesday.
The audit examined two Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) subawards totaling $3.1 million that the California Governor's Office of Emergency...
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