Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-04-13 | Page 14 | Ohio County Funds Probe is Proposed

OHIO COUNTY FUNDS PROBE IS PROPOSED 1 5 I r State State Auditor to Inquire Into i Discrepancies in Cuyahoga Cuya- Cuya 1 h hoga Sa Treasury I 8 By y A Ass Associated i te l Press CLEVELAND April 13 Far 13 reach Far Ing functions of at the Cuyahoga county I treasury Cleveland which annually annual annualS l ly b. handles approximately were threatened today with the possibility pos of a temporary to permit a state slate investigation of alleged discrepancies dis amounting to The county treasurer treasur r. r L L. G. G ter last night asked State Auditor Joseph T T. Tracy to take over the thc office of fice ice and conduct an examination of its affairs wrote he was prepared to resort to the extraordinary extraordinary nary procedure of temporarily su suspending suspending sus sus- pending all of its functions Tracy said however he had no authority au authority to administer the office but merely to investigate ate its transactions transaction He said a I complete investigation t to date would be made mad by state exam ads ners who found discrepancies as o of December 18 1931 Th The spotlight of at investigation thus thu far has revealed numerous illegal practices including alleged loans amounting to 18 18 made to cal associates and others b by means o of holding their checks in plY pay payment ment for taxes More than o of these checks were returned a few fe days ago because of ot insufficient funds In this group were 21 checks s amounting to given by com panics in which Henry A. A Beckerman Beckerman Becker Becker- man prominent local Republican politician pol pol- lUcian was associated Undated checks for 2604 given by Appellate Judge Manuel Levine have been redeemed with cash but checks for given Iven by Municipal Judge Joseph F. F are arc still sun lag inc Judge now is involved in in bankruptcy proceedings and petitions been c circulated for his removal