ST. LOUIS – The State of Missouri is now looking into a whistleblower complaint regarding fears of potential fraud in a City of St. Louis pandemic relief program.
Democratic St. Louis Rep. Steve Butz is the so-called whistleblower. He’s become so concerned with the red flags raised about the possibility of fraud with a grant program—that’s supposed to help revitalize struggling areas of north St. Louis—that he’s gone to the staff of the Missouri State Auditor.
“With this amount of smoke, we’ve got to know where the truth lies,” Butz said of the troubled program…