http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-rpof-hires-auditor-2-20100408,0,4631191.storyTALLAHASSEE – Mired in a financial scandal that threatens to drag into the fall elections, Florida Republicans have tapped a firm that investigated the Enron debacle to probe credit card charges and contracts tied to ousted chairman Jim Greer.
RPOF Chairman John Thrasher said Thursday that Atlanta-based Alston & Bird, LLP, would comb over all party contracts signed during Greer's three-year tenure and also explore "a lack of documentation for expenses related to food, travel and entertainment that were incurred on the party credit cards by the former Chairman and Executive Director."
It may be an expensive – and lengthy -- undertaking.
An Orlando Sentinel analysis of the RPOF's state and federal spending reports since 2007 shows party leaders charged at least $6.5 million on credit cards, most of which has not yet been publicly broken down. The party also had contracts with more than a dozen firms for fundraising, communications, direct-mail and other services during that period.
Greer and former Executive Director Delmar Johnson racked up more than $1 million on party charge cards last year alone on travel, hotels, meals, greens fees, flowers and other charges even as party fundraising was suffering.
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