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Inspector General: City procurement-card review found isolated issues but no widespread fraud
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David Johnston, deputy inspector general for audit, told the Duval Doze Committee that a machine‑assisted review of three years of procurement‑card transactions flagged red‑flag and prohibited purchases but did not reveal systemic fraud.
David Johnston, deputy inspector general for audit with the Office of Inspector General, told the Duval Doze Committee that the office’s review of city procurement-card (P‑card) usage identified isolated problems but no widespread fraud.
Johnston said the office opened an investigation after a complaint from the Supervisor of Elections in late 2023 that identified “questionable purchase card payments” with missing supporting documentation. The office analyzed roughly three years of P‑card data and asked the city's Technology Solutions Department to run a machine‑learning review with vendor NLP Logix, he said.
The dataset covered transactions from December 2021 through February (the review period provided by staff), Johnston said. NLP Logix and the audit team separated transactions into two initial categories: expressly prohibited charges (fuel, printing, cash…
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