So far we have seen that Leigh Auton, despite a salary of around $450,000, and a paid board position with the Ngapuhi Asset Holding Company Limited, charge up expenses for one organisation onto another. He also doesn’t much like dipping into his own pockets for things like birthday shouts. No, he much prefers dipping into the ratepayers pockets for things like that.
Another thing that Leigh Auton seems to like is rugby. League or Union it matters not. For league he bills up charges for that board position to his council credit card and for union he enjoys season tickets for the Counties-Manukau Steelers paid for by the ratepayers.
Leigh Auton charges up his rugby seats to the ratepayer
Don’t you just love the excuse explanation on the robustly audited accounts?
While we are talking about these “robust audit processes” that we constantly hear about from Leigh Auton and Len Brown, I have reviewed every single page of Leigh Auton’s expenses and not once is there any query about a single expense. No hand written notes, no notations about missing tax invoices, nothing about the missing sign off as required by the Council’s policies. Not a single mention or follow up on un-approved expenses, and no approval signatures on half a dozen or so pages.
If these are the “robust audit processes” that Len Brown has presided over along with his loyal group of apologist councillors then the man is unfit to run a bath much less the affairs of the local bowling club, to think he wants to run New Zealand’s largest city. Hell he can’t even remember to take his own credit cards with him to the dairy, yet somehow always seems to have a council credit card ready. His CEO is no better.
Between these two they have fleeced the ratepayers of Manukau for nickels and dimes and all the time justified it with righteous indignation that they have “robust audit processes”.
Between the two of then they have creamed over $1.8 million of ratepayers money for their salaries and also charged up newspapers, insect repellent, rugby tickets, carparking, endless dinners and coffee. The larceny upon the ratepayers pockets must end.
