Buddy, can you spare…?

In reviewing documents at the behest of a reporter recently, I saw something I’d never seen before:  a letter from a nonprofit to the Attorney General of Pennsylvania requesting an exemption from doing an audit because the cost of such audit was more than what the organization could afford and could it instead do a compilation or review.  This organization, with contributions exceeding the state requirement for an audit, could well afford the cost.   But it chose to cry poor.  The then Attorney General approved Read more