The Missouri state auditor released a report Wednesday stating St. Louis County spent 33% of its share of the Rams settlement funds without an adequate process to evaluate the spending of the funds, giving the county a “fair” rating.

St. Louis County received a total of $159 million in settlement money from the lawsuit against Los Angeles Rams owner Stan Kroenke after the team left St. Louis in 2016. In total, the area received $519 million from the settlement after legal fees.

Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick's office found the St. Louis County Council hasn’t established a formal criteria for deciding which projects will receive settlement funding and hasn’t established any potential restrictions on settlement fund use.

“Instead, the council has decided on a case-by-case basis to use sett

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