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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An unannounced cash audit by the Territorial Audit Office (TAO) of building permit fees collected by the Department of Public Works identified discrepancies such as missing cash collections of more than $3,000, prompting TAO to write directly to Gov. Lemanu Peleti...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Territorial Audit Office (TAO) made five specific recommendations for the Police Commissioner to implement following unannounced cash audits in February of the Public Safety Department’s Office of Motor Vehicle (OMV) — located in Tafuna — and the Records Division,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The US Interior Department’s Office of Inspector General (DOI-OIG) is questioning spending totaling $23,080 designating it as ineligible and an additional $3,167 as unsupported following an audit of expenses claimed by the ASG Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources...

![TAO said it questioned the Cash custodian on the shortage, and she explained that the cash was used to purchase supplies for the office and other urgently needed items for the department per instructions from the deputy director and “this has been the common practice for some time,” TAO acting director Sualauvi Su’a wrote to the governor in the report dated Mar. 8th. [photo: PASAI website] TAO acting director Sualauvi Su’a](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/tao_acting_director_sualauvi_sua.jpg?itok=q6f62P8i)

