{"id":129025,"date":"2024-04-19T01:40:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T01:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=129025"},"modified":"2024-04-19T01:40:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T01:40:51","slug":"ark-governors-office-mightve-broken-law-in-buying-19k-lectern-audit-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=129025","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ark. governor\u2019s office might\u2019ve broken law in buying $19K lectern, audit finds&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2024\/04\/16\/sarah-huckabee-sanders-lectern-audit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;Arkansas lawmakers from both sides of the aisle on Tuesday questioned the staff of Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) a day after legislative auditors released a report that found that her office may have broken the law while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2023\/10\/13\/sarah-huckabee-sanders-lectern\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">buying a $19,000 lectern<\/a>\u00a0and in handling government records about its purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 68-page audit, released Monday \u2014 six months after the legislature approved it \u2014 said that Sanders\u2019s office potentially violated state laws by shredding a document that should have been preserved and mishandling the purchase process. At the end of their report, they said they had forwarded their findings to the Sixth Judicial District Prosecuting Attorney and the state attorney general.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;Arkansas lawmakers from both sides of the aisle on Tuesday questioned the staff of Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) a day after legislative auditors released a report that found that her office may have broken the law while\u00a0buying a $19,000 lectern\u00a0and in handling government records about its purchase. The 68-page audit, released Monday \u2014&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129026,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129025\/revisions\/129026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}