COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio state auditors are questioning more than $17 million in spending from Eastern Gateway Community College during one of its final years of operation.

According to a press release from Ohio State Auditor Keith Faber, the total represents the entirety of federal student aid programs at the college where "pervasive deficiencies in recordkeeping" and "derelict accounting and controls" led to "rampant financial mismanagement of public resources."

Faber says school officials regularly spent money without verifying that the expenses were proper or allowed and borrowed money without fully disclosing details to lenders or grasping the financial implications of the debt.

Additionally, Faber says the college did not fully track student enrollment and attendance and could not v

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