Audit: State Technology Office Broke Law

TALLAHASSEE -- The state agency responsible for spending $763-million on new information technology illegally solicited money from businesses with state contracts, failed to adequately account for expenditures and may have paid for services that were not received, an audit has found.

The findings will be referred to the State Ethics Commission, Attorney General Bob Butterworth and investigators for Comptroller Bob Milligan, who released the audit Monday.

Lucy Morgan, St. Petersburg Times Tallahassee Bureau Chief. For the full story, please visit the St. Petersburg Times Web site.