Cindy Byrd

Oklahoma State Auditor and Inspector Cyndi Byrd says state agencies mismanaged or questionably spent almost $100 million in pandemic relief funds during the 2023 fiscal year. The most in a single year so far, by a long shot.

State Auditor Cindy Byrd independently released her office’s investigation into the state department of health, which found it might have broken the law in its race to secure PPE at the beginning of the pandemic.

An investigative audit released Tuesday afternoon reveals that the leader of defunct charter school Seeworth Academy misspent a quarter of a million dollars.

A group of Republican lawmakers are calling for an investigative audit of Oklahoma’s State Department of Education in the wake of state auditor Cindy…