State Auditor Beth Wood today released a January audit that said the salary N.C. State University paid to then-First Lady Mary Easley was excessive and should have been reduced by nearly $90,000.
But Wood, in a follow-up "interim report" said the January audit was incomplete and that more investigation was needed, reports Dan Kane. She noted that NCSU had provided additional information to justify the $170,000 salary. The January audit recommended that the salary be reduced to $79,000 and that Easley's five-year contract should be replaced by a two-year contract.
Mary Easley's salary, and her hiring at NCSU, have become part of wide-ranging state and federal investigations into perks given to former Gov. Mike Easley and his family.
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Re: Audit: Pay for M. Easley 'excessive'
Why release in August an audit that was completed in January? Read the article in the N&O and you realize there is something fishy with all of this, as usual.
Also, click on Beth Wood above and tell me she hasn't spent too much time in a tanning both.