West Palm power struggle: Should internal auditors have to plant one on city officials’ posterior to get facts?
by Michael C. Bender | July 26th, 2009From Post investigative team reporter Charles Elmore:
Imogene Isaacs might make city officials angry sometimes, but she should not have to “kiss their asses,” one of her job evaluators says.
The blunt language speaks to a behind-the-scenes struggle over the budget, authority and control of an internal auditor’s office that has won national awards since its creation by voters in 1988.
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[Gregory] Daniel, managing director of Ibis Capital Partners in West Palm Beach, asserts the auditor is facing “a combative culture of non-cooperation.”
Not everyone agrees.
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