RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Richmond’s city warehouses were found to be in disarray due to a lack of oversight, per a new audit report, leaving the city open to fraud, waste and abuse.
The Office of the City Auditor (OCA) has been looking into how Richmond manages its city warehouses.
In late 2024, Richmond’s Office of the City Auditor (OCA) audited both the Department of Public Utilities’ (DPU) Main Warehouse and its Wastewater Treatment Plant Warehouse. Auditors discovered these warehouses were poorly managed, reporting wildly inaccurate inventory totals and overall presenting a “significant risk of error, fraud and waste” to the city…