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"These attendance audits affect billions of dollars in education spending. It is critical that our citizens know that this money is spent where it is needed. Hopefully, the recommendations we made can be used to strengthen all attendance audits."

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"The Harlan County School project should serve as a valuable lesson for all of us. There is no way that project could have been built for the original cost estimate and in fact by the time it was built the cost more than doubled. We simply have to have accurate cost analysis done at the very beginning of these school construction projects so the policy makers are making their decisions based on accurate data."

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Luallen Video and Actuality (26 sec): "Each year that our office has released an audit of Knott County the situation has only gotten worse. And that's in spite of a recent change of leadership in the county. It's simply unacceptable that we have this continuing level of mismanagement and possible corruption. It is my hope that this latest audit and the resulting federal investigation will result in something finally being done about this problem. We need to bring accountability to the operation of Knott County's finances."

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"THIS CASE IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF HOW OUR SYSTEM OF CHECKS AND BALANCES IS SUPPOSED TO WORK. I ENCOURAGE EVERY LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO ACT QUICKLY WHEN QUESTIONS OF IMPROPRIETY ARISE."

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