Clinton
- 01Certified 9,343.00 spent and said it funded no program9,343.00
- 02Certified T-shirts and a police vendor payment as abatement9,343.00
- 03Certified 1,025.00 in lawyer fees as administrative costs1,025.00
- 04Certified 13,008.30 committed with no order on the books13,008.30
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Clinton has received $51,472.09 in opioid settlement funds and spent $10,368.00 of it.
The money, four ways.
Four figures describe the same settlement money. Each one comes from a different document.
Certified against the books,
every report year.
Every year this jurisdiction has filed, and the year it has not. The match on each row is computed from the rows, not judged.
filed
- Program name
- Equipment
- Recipient
- Town of Clinton
- Programs listed
- 2
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $11,658.74
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $29,542.61
- Received to date
- $29,542.61
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $1,025.00
- Unspent on hand
- $11,983.30
- Received to date
- $41,756.93
filed
- Program name
- Equipment
- Programs listed
- 2
- Amount expended
- $9,343.00
- Unspent on hand
- $29,184.08
- Received to date
- $51,472.09
6 findings.
Every finding is verified to the documents in its own row. An inference is labelled as one.
Red with the marker: a certified figure the books contradict.
The FY2026 report certifies 9,343.00 spent between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026 (p1).
At question 17 it answers No to whether the Town funded any program with settlement money in the year (p4). It adds no new program. Its two program blocks reprint the FY2023 programs Equipment and Officer Training, each at 0.00 for 07/01/2022 to 06/30/2023, last updated 07/14/2026 (pp4 to 5). The account paid 9,343.00 in the year in two payments. Purchase order 25-00813, check 17095 on 08/13/2025, paid 2,199.00 for custom stickers and T-shirts. Purchase order 26-00641, check 17816 on 06/10/2026, paid Online Policing Solutions, Inc. 7,144.00 for STRATEGIC PROJECT IMPLEMENTATI, the first and only payment the Town has made to that vendor. The two payments make the certified figure to the cent. The report gives the year's goal as community outreach and names the Police Chief and the CFO as the officials who decided the spending (p2). It certifies the money spent and describes nothing it bought. No abatement program for either purchase is documented in the records produced.
self-contradiction · 4 documents · 10/04/2026The FY2026 report certifies 9,343.00 of opioid abatement funds spent between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026 (p1).
It gives community outreach as the goal and names Schedule B as the resource the Town used to decide the spending (p2). Its Equipment program, filed in FY2023 under Harm Reduction as equipment to help officers identify unknown drugs, now gives Clinton Night Out as its key indicator (p4). The FY2025 report said the Town planned a community night out (p2). The books show what the 9,343.00 bought. Purchase order 25-00813, encumbered 07/14/2025, paid 2,199.00 for custom stickers and T-shirts by check 17095 on 08/13/2025. Purchase order 26-00641 paid Online Policing Solutions, Inc. 7,144.00 for STRATEGIC PROJECT IMPLEMENTATI, invoice 1158, by check 17816 on 06/10/2026. No record shows opioid content on the stickers or shirts. The police vendor's order states no substance use purpose. On 08/12/2026 the Town paid the same apparel vendor 2,305.00 for National Night Out T-shirts from a developers escrow reserve. Stickers, T-shirts and a police vendor's project are not among the uses Exhibit E lists, and no listed use covers them.
program-misclassification · 6 documents · 10/04/2026The FY2025 report certifies 1,025.00 spent between 07/01/2024 and 06/30/2025 and the same 1,025.00 as administrative expenses, which it details as litigation to the Tate Law Group (p1).
The books show three lines of purchase order 25-00547, OPIATE LITIGATION, for Tate Law Group invoices 2013-58, 2013-63 and 2013-71. They are 368.44, 319.17 and 337.39, encumbered 05/01/2025 and paid by check 16898 on 05/14/2025 from the settlement account. The Town's vendor report for every fund from 01/01/2018 to 09/09/2026 shows no other payment to the firm. MOA Section E(6) routes payments to counsel to the Supplemental Contingent Fee Fund. Counsel fees are not among the uses Exhibit E lists, and no listed use covers them. The report certifies them as administration of the abatement money.
program-misclassification · 3 documents · 10/04/2026The FY2024 report certifies 13,008.30 appropriated or encumbered but not yet spent between 07/01/2023 and 06/30/2024 (p1).
The same page certifies 29,542.61 received since 2022 and the same 29,542.61 as unspent and uncommitted on hand. Committed and uncommitted together come to 42,550.91, which is 13,008.30 more than the Town had received. The settlement account G-02-41-746-2300, on the audit trail for 01/01/2022 to 05/28/2026, prints an adopted budget of 39,552.08 with nothing amended or transferred and Encumber YTD 0.00. Its first purchase order, Tate Law Group 25-00547, was encumbered on 05/01/2025, ten months after the reporting period closed. No order of 13,008.30 appears on the account or in the Town's vendor report for every fund from 01/01/2018 to 09/09/2026. The FY2025 report then carried the figure forward, reporting 11,983.30 on hand, the 13,008.30 less the 1,025.00 spent.
fake-encumbrance · 4 documents · 10/04/2026The FY2025 report certifies 41,756.93 received since 2022, 1,025.00 spent and 0.00 appropriated or encumbered between 07/01/2024 and 06/30/2025 (p1).
Received less spent is 40,731.93. The same page certifies 11,983.30 of unspent and uncommitted money on hand, 28,748.63 less. The 11,983.30 is the 13,008.30 the FY2024 report certified as appropriated or encumbered, less the 1,025.00 spent. The FY2024 report had put the whole 29,542.61 it had received in the unspent figure. The account prints Encumber YTD 0.00. Its first purchase order, Tate Law Group 25-00547, was encumbered on 05/01/2025 and paid by check 16898 on 05/14/2025 for 1,025.00. No order of 13,008.30 or 11,983.30 appears on the account or in the Town's vendor report for every fund from 01/01/2018 to 09/09/2026.
unspent-misstated · 5 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2026 report certifies 29,184.08 of unspent and uncommitted settlement money on hand and 0.00 appropriated or encumbered (p2).
It certifies 51,472.09 received since 2022 (p1). The FY2025 and FY2026 reports certify 1,025.00 and 9,343.00 spent, and the account shows 10,368.00 paid in all, on 05/14/2025, 08/13/2025 and 06/10/2026. Received less spent is 41,104.09. The 29,184.08 is the account's printed Balance YTD on the audit trail printed 09/09/2026, the 39,552.08 appropriation less the 10,368.00 expended. The account prints no payment after 06/10/2026 and no open order. The reported figure leaves out 11,920.01 of certified receipts that were never appropriated to the account, the difference between 51,472.09 and 39,552.08.
unspent-misstated · 4 documents · 10/03/2026Patterns this jurisdiction appears in: Fake encumbrances
The ledger, as printed.
Account G-02-41-746-2300, as printed from the jurisdiction's own accounting system. Classification follows the Exhibit E gates.
| Date | Check | PO | Payee and description | Amount | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05/14/2025 | 16898 | 25-00547 | Tate Law Group LLC · Opiate Litigation | 368.44 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 05/14/2025 | 16898 | 25-00547 | Tate Law Group LLC · Opiate Litigation | 319.17 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 05/14/2025 | 16898 | 25-00547 | Tate Law Group LLC · Opiate Litigation | 337.39 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 08/13/2025 | 17095 | 25-00813 | Megan Gonzalez · Custom stickers/T-shirts | 2,199.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 06/10/2026 | 17816 | 26-00641 | ONLINE POLICING SOLUTIONS, INC · STRATEGIC PROJECT IMPLEMENTATI INV#1158 | 7,144.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| Total paid | 10,368.00 | ||||
| Conforming abatement spending | 0.00 |
Vendors, and what paid them before.
What fund carried each payee before the opioid account, and how large the opioid slice is against the whole relationship. Bars share one scale.
Full width is $7,144.00, the largest payee total. Solid is the opioid account. Hatched is every other fund.
All documents are public records produced by the jurisdiction. Titles are the documents' own.
No dated event is published for this jurisdiction yet.
No correction received from this jurisdiction. If a figure on this page is wrong, send the record that shows it. The response is published here word for word.
Correct the recordCan opioid settlement money be spent on police cars or license plate readers?
No. Exhibit E of the national settlement lists the approved uses: treatment, recovery, prevention, harm reduction and related supports. Vehicles and surveillance hardware are not among the uses it lists, and state law bars using the funds to replace money a town would otherwise have spent.The approved uses
What did Clinton tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 4 programs to the Department of Human Services. Each program, its recipient and its amount are reproduced above, beside the payments in the account.See the reports
How was this grade computed?
By code, from a published rubric: reporting integrity 50 percent, spending conformity 40 percent, transparency 10 percent, with hard caps for a certified program that has no payee in the books, for an uncertified transfer out, and for a records refusal.The rubric
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Town of Clinton
The Town of Clinton spent all 10,368.00 it has paid from its settlement account on lawyer fees, stickers, T-shirts and a police vendor, certified it as abatement and administration, and misstated its committed and unspent money for three years.