City Prosecutor to City: "I'm not your compliance manager"

Commonwealth’s Attorney Joe Platania appears to be fed up with the City not updating their current credit card policy.

So, basically, under the city's current credit card policy, city employees can potentially embezzle money without facing prosecution. As Commonwealth’s Attorney Joe Platania explained in a recent letter to City Manager Chip Boyles, enforcement and oversight measures in the policy are so "lax" that his office would likely be unable to successfully prosecute an embezzlement case.

Platania also made a point of saying it was "the third time" he had discussed issues about the credit card policy with city officials, and his frustration was palatable: “I am the city’s elected prosecutor, not its compliance manager,” he wrote. “Unless and until this is formally dealt with by city leadership, we will continue to read editorials … calling for the city to ‘solve its credit card problems.’”

"Since he directly asked them to set a policy to better monitor the credit cards, and they …