30 EL PASO HOTELS FAIL TO REMIT $2.5M IN HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX
Last month we cited a City audit dated March 6 revealing that 10 hotels failed to remit $1,121,530.45 in hotel occupancy tax (HOT), including penalties and interest. Now we have…
LIST OF 96 RECIPIENTS OF CAR ALLOWANCE CITED IN CITY AUDIT
The City’s current Vehicle Allowance Program Policy was implemented under City Manager Tommy Gonzalez on August 31, 2015 and has never been updated. Chief City Auditor Edmundo Calderon published his…
AUDIT REVEALS CITY MISHANDLED NUMEROUS CHAPTER 380 AGREEMENTS WITH DEVELOPERS, LOSING MILLIONS
A new audit reveals the City’s Economic & International Development Department lost millions of dollars because of systemic failures in its handling of Chapter 380 Agreements with developers and did…
CITY HIRING OUTSIDE COUNSEL TO INVESTIGATE GAS CARD AND P-CARD USAGE, EXPAND AUDIT
During today’s special session, our City Council heard Chief City Auditor Edmundo Calderon present the same report he presented to FOAC one week ago, detailing the excessive gas purchases by…
ADAM POWELL’S REPORT ON GAS CARD SCANDAL
The measure of the character of an elected leader is how he/she behaves when no one is watching, and City Rep. Cassandra Hernandez and former City Rep. Claudia Lizette Rodriguez…
CLAUDIA “FILL’ER UP” RODRIGUEZ OFFERS TO REIMBURSE THE CITY FOR HER GAS, SORT OF…
Last Thursday the Chief City Auditor, Edmundo Calderon, presented a report to the Financial Oversight and Audit Committee (FOAC) in which he showed that City Rep. Cassandra Hernandez and former…
CASSANDRA HERNANDEZ ACCUSED OF STEALING, AGAIN
As we know, City Rep. Cassandra Hernandez and former City Rep. Claudia Lizette Rodriguez abused their city gas card privileges by ringing up huge tabs on the backs of the…
CASSANDRA HERNANDEZ AND CLAUDIA RODRIGUEZ USED 3,403 GLALON OF CITY GAS IN 2022!
The Financial Oversight and Audit Committee (FOAC) will be meeting tomorrow at 1:00pm and they just posted the backup to their agenda. There you will find the City Council &…