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Wilson told the interviewer, Daily Voice correspondent Lisa Kaslyn, that the flap over the missing $5 million heated up this week with the entrance of Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, as the overseer of the inquiry.
Other developments, McKay told Kaslyn included Carmel’s cutting of the fire department’s budget by $550,000, and a new contract which contains certain safeguards. In a past article, Wilson said that the town is looking for ways to reconstitute the fire district to make it more public than private.
He also told Kaslyn that the department’s longtime treasurer, Michael Klein, has resigned. Klein, a local businessman, has been on the fire department’s board since the 1990s, Wilson said.
The missing money was uncovered when, Wilson told Kaslyn, a former Carmel town comptroller and member of the fire department’s board noticed bookkeeping irregularities “going back many years.”
The subsequent investigation, which has been going on for about three months, has ramped up now that Bharara has entered the scene, Wilson said.
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