South Carolina mulls mystery $1.8bn in account: ‘We don’t know why it’s there’

Last year, the state comptroller resigned after the discovery of a 10-year, $3.5bn accounting error. State lawmakers say the $1.8bn sum could be related to that scandal, the New York Times reported. Or it may not be. No one knows.

And:

State officials say the sum was discovered last October – though the state auditor, George Kennedy III, recently told a hearing he knew about it in 2017 but presumed it was in the account temporarily, the Times said.

So it sounds like they just let the old comptroller resign without ever finding that 3.5 billion...

Like, I get it takes a while to untangle, but that's literally why we have forensic accounts in the FBI, why the fuck haven't they been working on it this whole time?

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Last year, the state comptroller resigned after the discovery of a 10-year, $3.5bn accounting error. State lawmakers say the $1.8bn sum could be related to that scandal, the New York Times reported. Or it may not be. No one knows.
And:
State officials say the sum was discovered last October – though the state auditor, George Kennedy III, recently told a hearing he knew about it in 2017 but presumed it was in the account temporarily, the Times said.
So it sounds like they just let the old comptroller resign without ever finding that 3.5 billion...
Like, I get it takes a while to untangle, but that's literally why we have forensic accounts in the FBI, why the fuck haven't they been working on it this whole time?
You'd think it would be easy to run down the account history... at a minimum the bank should be able to do that!
When was the account opened? Who opened it? When was the last deposit made? Where did the last deposit come from?