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2 unusual facts about Auditor General


Siosifa Tuʻitupou Tuʻutafaiva

Pohiva, a Member of Parliament, was the editor, owner and publisher of the Keleʻa pro-democracy newspaper, in which an article in late 1998 alleged that the Auditor General, Pohiva Tuʻiʻonetoa, had lied and "altered the correct result of an independent examination".

World Bank's Inspection Panel

The Internal Auditing Department (IAD), whose VP Auditor General reports to the World Bank's President and to the Audit Committee of the Board of Executive Directors.


Kathy Dunderdale

In his 2011 report Auditor General John Noseworthy noted that spending had increased by 47.4 percent over a five year period.

William Maturin

He and his brother Augustus arrived in Adelaide on the brig Elizabeth Buckham on 22 June 1843, and took the place of W. C. Darling in the Commisariat Department under administrator Sir Henry E. Fox Young, acting as his private secretary and holding the position of Deputy Assistant Commissary General and Auditor General, was promoted to Assistant Director in 1847, then Private Secretary to the Lieutenant Governor in 1851.


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Allyson Pollock

Jeremy Colman, former deputy general of the National Audit Office and the current Auditor General for Wales has supported Pollock's findings.

Atomic Energy of Canada Limited

Opposition politicians defended Keen, called for Lunn to be fired, and for the report to be made public (Auditor-General's report identified 'deficiency' at AECL, by Juliet O'Neill, The National Post, January 10, 2008, p. A1).

Audit storm

In 2003, Auditor General Li Jinhua presented the annual audit report to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

Cardinals created by Innocent X

Prospero Caffarelli, auditor general of the Apostolic Chamber – cardinal-priest of S. Callisto, † 14 August 1659

Charles John Irving

He was Resident Councillor of Penang from 1885 to 1887 and Colonial Auditor General to the government of the Straits Settlements at Penang from 1867 to 1879 under governors Sir Harry Ord and Edward Anson.

Corruption in Papua New Guinea

There are nine public sector agencies which work with the NACA with the objective of combating corruption in the public sector: Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary, Public Prosecutor’s Office, Ombudsman Commission, Auditor General’s Office, Solicitor General’s Office, Department of Treasury, Department of Provincial and Local Government Affairs, Internal Revenue Commission, and the Department of Personnel Management.

Darcy Richardson

Although a registered Democrat and elected Montgomery County precinct committeeman at the time, Richardson was nominated to run for the position of Pennsylvania Auditor General in 1980 on the Philadelphia-based Consumer Party's ballot line.

Deepak-class fleet tanker

The CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General) reported that substandard steel was chosen which helped Fincantieri to bag the contract quoting lower cost.

Deh Cho Bridge

Auditor General Sheila Fraser agreed to do so, and the audit was submitted to the Assembly in March 2011.

Frank Szymanski

After his NFL career he practiced privately for a number of years before being appointed auditor general of Michigan by Governor G. Mennen Williams in 1956.

Frederick Montagu

His father was auditor-general of the duchy of Cornwall, while Frederick was Prince of Wales ; was M.P. for Westminster in 1722, for St. Germans in 1734, for Camelford in 1741, and for Northampton in 1754, and died on 29 May 1759.

Gomery Commission

The first to testify was Auditor General Sheila Fraser who reported the findings of her earlier investigations.

Inez Clare Verdoorn

She matriculated in 1916 from Loreto Convent in Pretoria, worked for a while in the office of the Controller and Auditor General before being appointed in 1917 as a herbarium assistant at the Division of Botany and Plant Pathology.

John Noseworthy

On June 22, 2011, John Noseworthy announced via Twitter that he was retiring from his position as Auditor General effective July 31, 2011, 13 months before his 10 year term as Auditor General was up.

Kevin Aylward

In 2007, auditor general John Noseworthy announced that Aylward had made inappropriate personal claims with his constituency allowance.

Liu Jiayi

Following the retirement of Li Jinhua, he was promoted to his current position of auditor general of the National Audit Office of the People's Republic of China in March 2008.

Mahadaji Pant Guruji

In the Peshwa’s court in Pune, Mahadaji Pant joined as a clerk and gradually reached at the post of ‘Auditor General’.

Nova Scotia parliamentary expenses scandal

On February 9, 2010, the first political casualty of the scandal occurred when Richard Hurlburt, Progressive Conservative MLA for Yarmouth, resigned days after the Auditor General's report had shown he had spent about $8,000 on a generator, for his home.

Rulings of the Constitutional Court of Thailand

On 24 June 2003, a petition was filed with the Constitutional Court seeking its ruling on the constitutionality of Jaruvan Maintaka's appointment by the Senate as Auditor-General.

Major rulings having included the 1999 ruling that Deputy Minister of Agriculture Newin Chidchop could retain his Cabinet seat after being sentenced to imprisonment for defamation, the 2001 acquittal of Thaksin Shinawatra for filing an incomplete statement with the National Counter-Corruption Committee, the 2003 invalidation of Jaruvan Maintaka appointment as Auditor-General, and the 2006 invalidation of the nation-wide results of a House election.

Walter Noel

In 2007, Noel was implicated in a report by the Auditor General, John Noseworthy, for billing the government over $12,000 which was spent on perfume, women’s clothing, and alcohol.

William Drew

William Leworthy Goode Drew (1826–1898), English-born auditor-general in colonial Queensland