Accountant-ese. Doubletalk. Here is the unanswered question: Did employees at the transit district steal money by cooking the books or just through sky- high salaries, benefits, overtime and pension-spiking?

STOP THE PRESSES, here's some astonishing news, Steve Wagstaff has concluded no wrongdoing by fellow San Mateo county connoisseurs of the pubic trough.

Who would have thought??

Wow, what's next, he clears a cop of wrongdoing?

Here is Ling La federal case:Web Link

3 Accountants came forward, Jayme A. Is County Manager John Maltbie's daughter she is confident.

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I asked Ling La for a statement regarding District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe's announcement. I didn't see where any reporter in San Mateo County even bothered to ask her for a statement, here it is.

My response to the DA announcement is that this is just a cover up of gross abuse similar to Watergate scandal of Richard Nixon. The audit was not done as a true forensic audit and the auditors do not have ability to see what happened behind the scenes where Karen Antion could have given money to Gigi Harrington via other means. This is the DA's job. If the DA knew that Samtrans has a shady accounting practices, its job is to investigate further. We need to see the true audit findings issued by MGO. As the auditor myself, I know it's difficult to detect the fraud based on documentation. Thus, to discover the embezzlement is to dig into these crooks' bank accounts and personal communication record such as wire tapping.

After all, what do you expect for an audit which was paid by the perpetrators?