‘Disappointing,’ Says Hum. Co. A/C Karen Paz Domínguez About State’s Decision to Issue Draft Investigation Report After Election
Karen Paz Dominguez
Press release from Auditor-Controller Karen Paz Domínguez:
On Wednesday, June 15, 2022, the Office of the Auditor-Controller attended an exit conference with the State Controller’s Office and the Humboldt County Administrative Office. In attendance were Auditor-Controller Karen Paz Domínguez, the Acting Assistant Auditor-Controller Jim Hussey, the County Administrative Officer Elishia Hayes, the Assistant County Administrative Officer Tabatha Miller, Deputy County Administrative Officer Sean Quincey, and five representatives from the State Controller’s Office (bureau chief, audit manager, audit lead, audit staff).
Discussed at the meeting were the results of the SCO’s month-long investigation into the County’s internal controls and causes of untimely filing of the 19/20 Financial Transactions Report (FTR). The month-long investigation began in December 2021, covered the 19/20 and 20/21 fiscal years, and ended in early January 2022. Today, six months after the SCO’s completion of field work, the SCO officially communicated their findings with the County in draft report form. The County now has 10 days to respond. Once the responses are delivered to the SCO, they will need additional time to publish their final report which will be made available to the public.
The Office of the Auditor-Controller became aware of the potential findings of the report in March 2022 and the findings reported today did not differ from the potential findings communicated in March 2022.
During the exit conference, SCO representatives were asked why their draft report was held up for the past several months. While no clear and definitive response was provided to the County, the SCO referenced “things at the County”, the SCO’s “audit backlog”, and “the review up the chain” as causes for their delay in issuing their investigation report.
The County has been reminded that the SCO’s draft report is confidential and is not to be distributed. This update is provided because many Humboldt County residents and media reporters have expressed great interest in the SCO’s findings.
For reasons which have not been explained, the State Controller, Betty Yee, directed the Attorney General to file a lawsuit against the County of Humboldt and Auditor-Controller Karen Paz Domínguez for the untimely filing of the 19/20 and 20/21 FTR on May 2, 2022, a month and a half before communicating the SCO’s findings about why the County was unable to timely file the 19/20 and 20/21 FTR.
It is very disappointing that the SCO chose to wait until after the election to release the report because even in its multiply-revised form the report and the information it provides would have been very useful to voters in their decision. The A-C office will honor the SCO request for confidentiality until the final report is issued, and will issue a further public comment at that time.
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KPD still has time to release all the dirt she’s uncovered but it’s a puzzle why she’s withheld it through the election if she’s got it.
Because that was the right way to do it.
If you haven’t noticed yet, that’s the way Paz Dominguez does things…
By the looks of things, maybe she let it play out the way it did to expose the kind of graft and corruption, that ended up occurring?
The Grand Jury, on the other hand, wasn’t worried about doing things the right way, so they didn’t. The didn’t keep confidential, what they were supposed to keep confidential, until after the election.
I wonder if the SCO report will wait for the election results to be finalized, before they give their final report?
I am confident, more than ever, that by voting for Paz Dominguez, I voted for the right candidate. I recognized her obvious integrity, and that is getting to be a rare characteristic, indeed.
And I would certainly vote for her again…
This press release is an example of exactly why Paz Dominguez shouldn’t have been re elected. It is one long “bad people are doing bad things (I can’t say what) that I would fix if bad people people weren’t preventing me- I would tell you all about if bad people were not keeping me from saying too. It’s all their fault.” Now having created another impression that she would be totally vindicated except for different set of people screwing her over, she has probably expanded the list of people who she has offended to the State Controllers Office. Not talking about “it” means not talking about it. It does not mean hinting broadly and raising doubts about other people’s integrity while saying she is being prevented from actually telling the awful truth. Which truth that may or may not be worth all the pot stirring that clearly has not fixed anything. That is passive aggressive disruption that damages without the justification of having fixed anything. Or even being sure that fixing is appropriate.
Leaving a trail of frustrated government officials who can’t defend themselves from what is after all only vague innuendo and makes those who hate government feel vindicated solely because they love to hate government is good enough reason for her to go.
spot on. she exhibits sociopath tendencies.
“Leaving a trail of frustrated government officials who can’t defend themselves from what is after all only vague innuendo…”
Might also apply to what’s happened to Paz Domingo, maybe. We’ll see. The State getting involved could very well stem from a vendetta referral, or back fired intransigence from either party. Of course the State will react first with an outsized fine, and everyone has to work backwards to establish innocence. Much of of this mountain might be a molehill in four years.
Missing filing reports is not a vague innuendo. It is, after all, the literal bottom line.
Oh if you only would…
“Those poor, poor, poor, defenseless government officials…”
“Mean Old Paz-Dominguez”
Cry me a river.
“Because that was the right way to do it.” Making up plays and the rules on the fly! integrity is one of many traits lacking in Putz Dominguez.
You may be confusing “integrity” with “perfection”.
I suppose you think she was “opposed” by so many in Humboldt County Government , including, “The Gang of Five”, because she was “opposed” to their “integrity”?
That’s a laugh!
integrity had nothing to do with it. Professionalism, courtesy and honesty does, which she lacks. Now “The Gang of Five” that’s a good one. IF ? she found anything that resembled a crime then Putz Dominguez should have turned it over to the DA or states attorneys office. Lack of integrity is not a crime.
So, you are suggesting that The Humboldt County Government, including “The Gang of Five”, exhibit professionalism, courtesy and honesty?
Seriously?
That’s an even bigger laugh!
(It’s actually a complete joke.)
Or is it that you just demand those traits from Paz Dominguez, but not from the rest of Humboldt County Government?
??Hmmm.,. Now why might that be???
Sounds discriminatory to me…
Hypocritical, actually, as well.
Par for the County course.
??”Who do you work for?”
Lack of integrity may not be a crime in itself, but it is a prerequisite.
Lack of integrity would suggest one has already violated a trust, or they would not lack integrity, quite yet.
It might also mean only that one hasn’t been caught, yet, and they simply have been getting away something, for the time being….
Like Paz-Dominguez, I’m looking forward to the SCO Report.
How about you?
nice attempt a the spin approach. And I am looking forward to the SCO report.
You didn’t answer the question.
my apology. I took your post as a statement of opinion. What was your question ?
in·nu·en·do
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an allusive or oblique remark or hint, typically a suggestive or disparaging one:
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synonyms:
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It will probably say that better unified practices or stronger systems are needed or that (and this is my bet) better communication is needed. Any one of which some people are likely to say proves malfeasance because they like to assume it from the start.
“Gullible”.
If you say it really slow, it rhymes with “orange”.
Ah, c’mon now. “Gullible” isn’t even in the dictionary.
Sure it is, it comes before “honesty” and “integrity”.
Innuendo definition… Italian suppository.
Integrity had nothing to do with it?
Professionalism, Courtesy and Honesty?
You must be talking about the Humboldt County Sheriff/ Coroner/Public Administrator’s Office…
No charges were filed in that corruption, so there must have been no wrongdoing there, right?
Perfectly ethical…
Integrity City…
I wonder who eventually ended up with that classic white Corvette I used to see parked out front?
The “hot” motor was pulled, so it looked “lifted”,
(It was “lifted” all right…)
And the motor was “hot” all right…,
Just like the rest of the car was “hot”…
Totally on the “up and up”… Right?
Those poor, poor, poor, defenseless government officials…
Baarrfff.
boy, (eye roll) wrongdoings from a previous elected official before Putz Dominguez was elected …… wow. I’m getting the feeling of you grasping at straws in a blizzard. I see government doesn’t work the way you would like it to. All this surmising is tiresome, don’t you think so ?
That decision to not charge anyone in that investigation was just announced recently…
and of course your not happy with the outcome.
It’s not that I’m not happy about it, what difference would that make?
Are you happy with the decision to basically overlook the wrongdoing involved?
Will it make you happy if any wrongdoing is simply overlooked the same way for the rest of County government?
It disgusts me. It makes me sick.
The government policing the government…
The government protecting the government…
Corruption comes before collapse…
Things are getting pretty shaky.
who said it was overlooked. You and I have no idea what was said or done behind closed doors.
No consequences.
Same thing.
Happy fathers day …June nineteenth ….
So, not filing required reports on time doesn’t count against Paz Dominguez? It’s irrefutable, but it doesn’t count. Cool,
she’s got nothin’ but emails.
The SCO report is coming…
That should clarify things somewhat…
Paz Dominguez is making an effort to keep the preliminary report confidential.
She didn’t see sound too worried about it, that’s for sure…
She even said she its “disappointing” it wasn’t released before the election.
(Hopefully that means someone will be…
“dis-appointed”… (as in “fired”)… )
Now, why would that be, cu 2morrow?
I doubt she would be so anxious to release it if it was going to make her look bad.
Maybe you should consider these sorts of things?
I’m not hearing the supervisors, sheriff’s, or any of the other department heads chiming in at all… Why is that?
Guilty consciences?
They are all laying low… Keeping mum…
Maybe that’s because the SCO report is going to paint their true pictures?
And maybe it ain’t going to be all that pretty?
Think about it…
Nothing would have changed the direction the voters had taken. So we’ll sit with baited breath awaiting SCO final report and maybe, just maybe some light will come of this mangled spin on truth and dare. When it does, I hope you revisit this site with your auspicious renderings.
I’m not going anywhere.
Something tells me, that the day before the SCO Report comes out, we won’t c u 2morrow, admitting you were wrong about your perceived lack of wrongdoing by Humboldt County Government, and the “Gang of Five”, or admitting you were wrong about Paz-Dominguez.
On that day, just like on this article, someone will be conspicuously missing.
It won’t be me.
we’ll see. Like you I’m not going anywhere….anytime soon. I’m certain there is wrong doing. Does it rise to the level of criminal behavior or ignorance
Did it intentionally hamper Paz- Dominguez’s ability to do her job?
Criminal or not, if that was the case then the guilt would fall on them, not Paz- Dominguez.
The Grand Jury report definitely did.
It’s release should have come after the election, same as the SCO report.
How is that not obvious.
Why’s that? Wouldn’t we want all available information before election so we can make best choices? It’s not “fair” to electorate to cover up
That’s the way the Grand Jury before this one did it. They must have had a reason. Election tampering would you believe? Before this Grand Jury, it had to be released a certain minimum period, (months before, I believe, like not after the second Monday in February), Or it had to wait til after the election.
In order to maintain the appearance of neutrality.
The Grand Jury is not supposed to be a Political Action Committee. In this election, it was. It’s supposed to maintain neutrality. It didn’t. It was election tampering.
Pretty obviously.
only a small number of county employees voted for her. The vast majority that didn’t were affected from her departments shenanigans, such as not paying venders, and the out fall was service from vendors suspended until paid in full. That hurt, especially in an economy and area where service is hard to come by.
From LOCO…
“Commenters here on the Outpost have also pointed out that a previous Civil Grand Jury announced a policy concerning the release of Grand Jury reports in election season. To quote from the 2018 press release:”
“Beginning this year, the Court implemented a new policy regarding the release of Grand Jury reports during June election years. The policy allows the release of reports until the second Monday in February; reports completed subsequent to that date must be released after the June election.”
Outpost ! well that answers a lot unsavory bunch on that site …lol, where is the reply from fore person, ya left that out.
Do you want me to hold your hand, too?
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2022/jun/2/23m-lost-97m-risk-civil-grand-jury-report-spreads/
Do you mean this?
“This morning we sent an email to the Civil Grand Jury asking why they chose to release the report so close to Election Day. As of the time of this post we had not heard back”
Or this comment from the linked article concerning the judge who changed the protocol to allow a reports release just ahead of the election…
https://jweekly.com/2020/07…
“The judge who signed off on it is none other than the anti-Semitic guy who attacked a lawyer a few years back. Please don’t let these people continue to run our government”
Or this comment…
“Still waiting on Jim Glover’s press release re: his explanation for the breaking of Grand Jury rules about releasing reports before an election. He promised to “better explain the hows and whys of our process.”
That went with this:
“5:00. Close of business. Where is that explanation, Jim Glover?”
“Due to the complexity of this report, the time required to complete the investigation was longer than customary. It is the practice of any Grand Jury for reports to be released as soon as they are completed and authorized by the court, thus today’s release”
That’s a bit of a contradiction, isn’t it?
Customary only if it’s not after the second Monday in February in an election year is what I read.
Did you miss that part?
Need I remind you?
” To quote from the 2018 press release:”
“Beginning this year, the Court implemented a new policy regarding the release of Grand Jury reports during June election years. The policy allows the release of reports until the second Monday in February; reports completed subsequent to that date must be released after the June election.”
So, why the sudden Grand Jury deviation?
And why no follow up explanation on that from the Grand Jury Foreman, Jim Glover, like he promised?
Something stinks.
And what took you so long to post that?
It took you almost as long as it’s taking Glover.
you seem to be a big fan of the world is out to get me fan club that’s prevalent on that site. Since your a big fan of their articles and posters, I suggest you wander back over to that pasture. You won’t get sympathy on this site as no one likes Putz Dominguez in this field.
I’m not looking for sympathy.
I’m just advocating integrity.
And since you are such a big fan of the “Get Me Some Golden Nuggets Fresh Out Of The Mouths of Babes From The Corruption Club”, Don’t you have a formal attire, standing reservation for a 4-top @7:00 PM at the Ingomar Club or something?
(Seated, of course)
I suggest you get going for your “surf and turf”, you only got about an hour, before you are fashionably late…
I would be surprised at all, if it’ll be going on the taxpayers dime…
Bon appetit.
Yeah, this is from LOCO, 15 days ago…
“We reached out to Glover this morning for an explanation. He responded via email, saying he intends to issue a press release later today that will “better explain the hows and whys of our process.”
I’m wondering where his missing reply is, too…
Maybe you can enlighten us…
He seem to have dropped the ball…
It’s no surprise…
why is everything a conspiracy with you people.
I don’t know, maybe it’s because I’ve seen corruption in action, and it’s generally among a group of like minded people.
why is people’s lack of integrity not a problem with you people?
I don’t set myself up for failure expecting such things when it comes to dealing with people
I gotcha.
If you can’t beat ’em, you might as well join ’em, right?
When in Rome, do as the Romans, right?
Tell me what you do do, not what you don’t do…
Let’s see if I can un-encrypt your double negative statement…
Would it parse to…
“I set myself up for success, expecting corruption, when it comes to dealing with people, because people are corrupt”…?
Hmmm…
So, it’s just a matter of figuring out how to fit in with crooks, in order to benefit by it, rather than not benefit by it”…?
Or just ignore it?
I gotcha… Pretty damn simple, isn’t it?
No thanks…
For example…
Those school lunch chicken nuggets, are for the schoolkids. 9 nuggets each.
I want no part of a plan that results in them getting 2 nuggets each, instead.
And if that’s what’s happening, I want it to stop.
You?
You ok with school kid chicken nuggets?
Here’s another good one…
Maybe it has something to d with this kind of bullshit???
Ya think???
From Thomas Edrington…
“Grand Jury reporting rules state anything not done by February is to be released after the June elections. This has been the case since 2018. Glover violated Grand Jury rules to rush through a report that, according to the first paragraph, was not fully investigated. Tell me again how folks aren’t using county resources for electioneering.
The webmaster that posted this trash early? CAO’s office, like usual. Sean Quincey and Elishia Hayes just can’t help acting as though they’re entitled to use their positions to subvert democracy.
Looks like my suit against the county just got a few pages longer.”
alrighty then
“If she’s got it.” Obviously, she doesn’t have it. Sometimes the obvious deduction is the correct one. It’s like The Big Lie. If court after court finds nothing, or minuscule errors like ALL elections, then maybe there is NOTHING.
Chaos in politics, crack me up. Ole Joes green policy is going to backfire, greenhouse gases are up, coal use on the rise and refineries are ramping up. We’ll be breaking fossil fuel consumption rates by the end of 2023 , this new circus is upside down. Worst management team ever, pump with pride Bidenaires
Humboldt should get a trophy…
“Most Corrupt 2022″…
These people crack me up daily, and I hope Paz ends up in a Jail Cell, with Rex Bohn and that nasty woman from SoHum…
Funny you’re getting so worked up as to call for jail, but obviously have no clue whats been going on. Just so you know Bohn is the glad handing good ol boy go along get along supervisor. Bushnell is a new inexperienced self centered entre, there to further her narrow interests. They rubber-stamp the backroom this-is-how-we-always do it folks’ busy work. Paz Dominguez is the new fresh out of college, I’ve got all the answers person placed in charge of the old grey actuarial phalange deep in the spiritual basement of the Courthouse. They don’t get along. Not on the same team.
Anyone notice Bohn’s kid is defaulting on $58,000 back property taxes on his cannabis property ☺??
Time to deploy a little pepper-spray???
Seriously. That is not good. They had a lot of support and if they are failing we are in for a world of hurt in Humboldt.
and the young shall learn from the old and become wise in years to pass
did she ever get her degree. I swore I heard her say she had two years of accounting classes when she was looking for endorsements. Then she took six months off shortly after being elected.
Thanks for the concise assessment!
I have been saying the same for some time now, in more words…
Bushnell isn’t qualified or intelligent enough to be a Supervisor of anything, except a “trim team”… She hates SoHum and wants it destroyed.
Rex is so crooked, they will have to screw him into his grave… He is paid in gold by everyone who wants something, and he rarely attempts to cover up his own deficiencies as a leader… I love those pictures of him watching Paz Dominguez, the most lost and directionless elected official in history, especially the ones with that smug “fuck you” grin on his silly face…
Humboldt sets a new low, but Mendo and Lake are 2nd and 3rd, and I guess the only contender would be Trinity, which everyone does but NOBODY talks about…
It’s time for new Supervisors, and I would recommend recalling Michelle and Rex, along with the idiot from Blue Lakes…
Best of luck in your future endeavors, Paz, and even though you were not re-elected, the private sector is looking for whistle-blowers like you!
You forgot San Bernardino, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Monterey, Shasta…. Things haven’t gone the way you expceted/wanted after legalization. Gotta blame someone.
The “Green New Deal” never passed Congress. It’s not a policy. Nixon signed the Clean Air Act back in the 70s. Didja know: Jerome Powell, Fed Chair is a Trump appointee? Real life is a little more confusing than the Hannity Carlson make believe.
Nixon ! your on the wrong page son, Hell! your on the wrong site. What’s confusing is Rachel Madcow, that’s a comedy show of errors.
I was responding to lone ranger up above. https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/richard-m-nixon/#:~:text=Richard%20Nixon%20was%20elected%20the,a%20U.S.%20Senator%20from%20California.
The Clean Air Act was passed in 1970. Just saying. Maybe folks are imagining too much environmental progressiveness from the Credit Card State, Delaware Dynastastic All Powerful/Pathetically Weak Joe Biden.
Ever watch Joe Biden townhall meetings? When you do get back to me, he has an agenda and its green. Not much for Carlson but i do like Kid Rock, he’s always been a straight shooter. WE THE PEOPLE, hillbilly
The fact is that of all the players in the energy game the president of the U.S. has very little influence on the world picture. Yes the refineries are ramping up after a significant drop in demand during the pandemic. If we had built more refineries getting supply up to demand levels would be faster. As it is the newest refineries in the U.S. are going on 50 years old.
He’s in charge of the Country with the Reserve Currency.
Biden has less fluency, than he has influence, that’s the problem…
He’s clueless.
The man is chasing his tail.
he can’t find his tail. Prevagen man is the worst white house occupant since _____________.
Eisenhauer.
resembles
Number one export of the us is fuel has been for years
and we’re Canada’s #1 customer
And coal is up, crack me up. Ole Joe does nothing, he as a president is no influence, unlike the orange buffoon that had the world living in fear, crack me up. The president hasn’t been powerless until now, good excuse, pump with pride Bidenaires
everything in her career is disappointing
Her???
??Your talking about Biden, right??♂️
Did Biden figure out how to become the first “woman” President???
He’s just going to need a little help from the “Surgeon General”…?️
Then suddenly Da Da!, becomes, Ma ma!..?
Maybe that will get him re-elected…