Barely a month before Superintendent Devon Horton was indicted on federal charges related to financial crimes, auditors issued a report about the use of district-issued purchasing cards in the DeKalb County school system.
The auditors identified instances where people were able to spend more than they were allowed and make purchases in prohibited categories. Overall, DeKalb officials said they found few causes for concern in Georgia’s third-largest district.
“There was a lot of surprise about how clean this audit was,” said Joel Thibodeaux, the district’s executive director of internal audits, at a Sept. 4 audit committee meeting where he presented the findings…