Your tax dollars at work
The state Department of Economic and Community Development under former Gov. Don Sundquist repeatedly violated state laws and policies regarding expenditures and contracts, an audit released Wednesday by the state comptroller’s office shows.
The department also “concealed questionable transactions” including the purchase of $17,523 worth of sport shirts and $2,300 worth of luggage; awarded two no-bid contracts for the same service at the same time; circumvented state law in the way it awarded $2.8 million worth of infrastructure-improvement contracts to the city of Smyrna for an expansion of the Nissan plant; and awarded job-skills grants without receiving proper applications.
Someone should go to jail.
