Fake encumbrances

Certified a 7,000.00 encumbrance no order supports

$7,000.00

Amount in this finding

BGrade BHopewell Township

Fake encumbrances · Verified · Updated 10/03/2026 · 3 documents

The FY2024 report certifies 0.00 expended and 7,000.00 appropriated or encumbered but not yet spent for the period 07/01/2023 to 06/30/2024 (p1). It answers No when asked whether the Township funded any program that year (p2). The audit trail for account X-02-00-920-948, run from 01/01/2020, shows no purchase order before 24-01114, first encumbered 09/11/2024 and paid by check 73186 for 9,000.00 on 11/12/2024. No order was open on 06/30/2024. The only 7,000.00 on the account is check 75559 on purchase order 25-01263, ordered 11/13/2025 and paid 12/01/2025 to reimburse the school district for the October 2025 Speak Sobriety assembly. That payment came seventeen months after the period closed, on an order that did not yet exist.