It's got to give you a burn in the gut of your stomach to hear this kind news in a city so strapped for cash.
WDIV reports that an Auditor General report given to the City Council on Wednesday shows that more than $310,000 is missing from the city of Detroit Finance Department's Assessments Division cash receipts. The money went missing over the past four years and most appears to have been stolen from a cash register on the 8th floor of CIty Council where where things like property taxes are paid.
WDIV reports that since 2007 a total of $310,000 in cash has gone missing from the register, and that in all, 40 percent of all the money that went into the register appeared to have been stolen.
And it said in 2007 and 2008, every cent that went into that register was stolen.
Councilman Ken Cockrel Jr. may have come up with the understatement of the year when he said, according to WDIV:
"Looking at it, it's hard not to come to the conclusion that leadership in this division was asleep at the switch."
