Internal audit now ‘ongoing’ following arrest

When Whitman County Auditor Eunice Coker received a call from the Shelton Police Department two weeks ago and was informed that former county Finance Director Cinnamon Brown had been arrested in Shelton on embezzlement charges, she was both surprised and nervous.

“At first, I wasn’t real calm,” said Coker.

Coker Tuesday advised county commissioners an internal audit investigation has been launched here to see if any fraud was committed here during Brown’s three-year stint as finance director.

So far they have not found anything, the auditor reported.

Brown was first employed by the county in 2...