More Questions for Michael Lamb About the PGH Police Scandal

Moriah Balingit:

Mr. Lamb, who is challenging Mayor Luke Ravenstahl in the Democratic primary for mayor, said the way the funds were labeled when they were handled by the city’s finance office made misappropriation difficult to detect within the special events office. The controller, who is in the process of auditing the office, said he reported the accounting practice to federal investigators.

City finance director Scott Kunka fired back, saying the system for how the funds were accounted for was set up before his time. He also said that Mr. Lamb has never raised any issues about how the funds were labeled before this month.

“That’s the way the system was set up and [Mr.] Lamb’s been accounting for it that way” for the duration of his time in office, Mr. Kunka said.