No receipts? No problem: Town pays company's bills anyway
Source: By JAIME GATTON, Mooresville Tribune (NC), Wednesday, August 22, 2007
While Mooresville taxpayers wrestle with rising utility bills, largely to pay for the expansion of the town’s wastewater treatment plant, the company hired to design the project has been paid more than $150,000 for expenses ranging from airline tickets and $176 hotel rooms to chewing gum and $4.65 Starbucks coffees.
Many of the expenses turned in by the company, CH2M Hill, had no receipts and non-itemized receipts, but the town reimbursed them anyway, a Tribune examination shows.