The Nebraska State Auditor’s Office in the State Capitol. (Paul Hammel/Nebraska Examiner)
LINCOLN — The state auditor, acting on a tip, found that the personal business of a supervisor in the Nebraska Department of Transportation on four occasions was paid state funds to tow a department-owned vehicle.
Auditor Mike Foley said the transactions, amounting to nearly $1,000, came despite the department having its own tow trucks.
“It’s a troubling situation where a person is in a position where he can directly order towing services to a company that he owns when in fact the department itself has sufficient towing resources,” he said. “You can not use your position to enhance your own personal financial gain.”
Insufficient records
Foley’s team, in an 11-page report issued Friday, offered four invoices between April 2024 and July 2025 showing that state purchase cards were used to pay a Wahoo-based business owned by Loren Cuda, the department’s highway fleet shop supervisor…