An audit of a now-closed eastern Ohio community college revealed millions in questionable federal taxpayer dollar spending on student financial aid.

State Auditor Keith Faber announced questions surrounding $17 million in spending at Eastern Gateway Community College. The money represents the entire student federal aid program at the school.

Faber also said “pervasive deficiencies in recordkeeping” and poor accounting led to widespread financial mismanagement of public resources.

“This goes beyond sloppiness and honest mistakes,” Faber said. “The public should be outraged.”

The 56-year-old school, with campuses in Steubenville and Youngstown, closed Sept. 30.

In 2022, the U.S. Department of Education said Eastern Gateway — which launched a free college program in 2015 — had illegally

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