State auditor to probe city towing scandal
Written on September 20, 2008
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department board requested Friday that Missouri State Auditor Susan Montee conduct an audit into the police department’s former contract with St. Louis Metropolitan Towing.
In July, Police Chief Joe Mokwa retired amid a scandal about his daughter, Aimie Mokwa, using towed cars from St. Louis Metropolitan Towing, which contracted with the city to tow cars.
“I’ve always been taught that when you make a mistake you admit it and then you do what you can to fix it,” interim police chief Lt. Col. Stephen Pollihan, said in a statement cheap payday loans. “We should have caught these problems sooner. Between the federal investigation, our own internal team and now the state audit, we will know exactly what happened to get us to this point and we’ll take those lessons with us as this department starts a new chapter. We can’t go back and undo what’s already happened, but we can prevent it from happening again, and that’s exactly what we’ll do.”
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