FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Family Council President Jerry Cox released a statement Thursday about a proposal by the Arkansas Lottery’s Legislative Oversight Committee to lower scholarship amounts by 10%.
Last week an audit of the Arkansas Lottery found a number of deficiencies in the Arkansas Lottery’s operation. Many of these deficiencies probably could have been avoided had the enabling legislation that gave us a lottery been written more clearly.
The following story, “Auditors flag lottery execs’ travel claims,” was written by Michael Wickline and published in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: Front Section, Pages 1 on 11/13/2010
Arkansas’ lottery failed to follow state travel rules and regulations for reimbursements for several employees, including its director, and failed to seek a legislative committee’s review for certain contract matters, a state auditor told lawmakers Friday.