BALTIMORE (WBFF) — A new state audit is raising questions over claims from the Moore administration that they have identified $400 million in budget savings. Investigators say those numbers don’t add up and are accusing Maryland’s leasing deals of lacking transparency.
On a Wednesday edition of FOX45 Morning News Megan Gilliland spoke with economist Anirban Basu about what the claims and the audit mean for taxpayers. Basu says, in short, it means more money out of their pockets.
“So, 13 stat agencies are being relocated to downtown Baltimore… this audit pertains to nine of those agencies and leases signed by the Department of General Services (DGS) on their behalf,” Basu said. “[The audit] says very clearly, ‘our audit disclosed that DGS could not support that $410.9 million in leases to relocate state agencies to Downtown Baltimore were in the state’s best interests.'”…