Special Committee Finds No Evidence of Corruption in Improperly Procured IT Contract

A special county legislative committee found no evidence of fraud or corruption in an improperly procured and administered contract between the Orange County government and information technology vendor StarCIO, according to a final committee report. “Our first finding is the StarCIO contract was not properly procured,” special committee chairman and county legislator Kevin Hines said during his presentation of the report at the rules committee on Feb. 21. But that was a mistake rather than a corrupt act, he said, adding that the county had been working diligently to perfect its procurement policy and process due to the special committee’s work....