State & Local Reports

The audit found that the organization did not ensure commissioners acknowledged their responsibilities under the Open Meeting Law and did not ensure they completed a required training on conflicts of interest. The audit examined the period of July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2019.

As part of an ongoing effort to help local governments identify and recover misspent taxpayer funds, the Broward Office of the Inspector General (OIG) initiated a review of payment records of multiple cities, including the City of Pembroke Pines. Our review led us to suspect that a security services provider billed the city for services it did not render.Our investigation substantiated this concern and ultimately led to arrests of Olalekan Shokunbi, owner of Bayus Security Services; Ololade Shokunbi, owner of Bayus Security Protection and Olalekan’s wife; and Oluwatoyin Laditan, both companies’ operations manager, for organized scheme to defraud, a first-degree felony under state law.The OIG determined there was probable cause to believe that Bayus Security Services and then Bayus Security Protection (collectively, Bayus or the companies), with which the city contracted to provide security services at several city-owned properties, defrauded the city out of at least $711,553.60 between October 1, 2012, and June 1, 2017, using different tactics that we outline in this report and that are described in detail in arrest warrants.

This letter report identifies 18 state agencies that will each be responsible for managing a portion of the federal COVID‑19 funds. Before finalizing our determination to add this issue to the state high risk list, we notified the 18 responsible state agencies about our preliminary determination and invited them to provide their perspective on the issue. We received responses from 12 of the 18 state agencies, and we summarize those responses at the end of this letter.

The audit, which examined the period of July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2019, found CTI's spending was appropriate and properly documented and management salaries were deemed not excessive.