OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Nebraska State Auditor Mike Foley’s office reported Tuesday it has found that a nonprofit has shown a “deliberate and ongoing pattern of monetary mismanagement and abuse.”

The Karen Society of Nebraska, named for the Karen people of Southeast Asia, primarily in Myanmar, has had offices in Omaha, Madison, and Lincoln for the last 15 years, the office’s report states.

The nonprofit’s goals, according to its website, is to help refugees and immigrants from Burma (known as Myanmar since 1989 in English) and sustain a “high quality life in Nebraska.”

Foley’s audit team believes that more than 99% of the government grant funding given to the nonprofit is spent improperly.

An example given in the report includes paying to translate into English a publication titled “Pre

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