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Greuel: 'No One Minding The Store' At LA Coliseum

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Another high-ranking city official will take a closer look at the Los Angeles Coliseum.

City Controller Wendy Greuel joined the review after a scathing report in the Los Angeles Times earlier this month alleged the Coliseum finance director Ronald Lederkramer made lavish expenditures.

The report alleged Lederkramer charged taxpayers as much as $7,600 for gasoline expenditures since 2008, including fill-ups in Florida and New York.

Greuel previously announced the audit in July
, but criminal probe investigators feared it would hinder their investigation. The two agencies have since found a way to cooperate, the Associated Press reported.

Greuel told KNX 1070 she takes the allegations very seriously.

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"It just seems like there wasn't anyone in charge," she said. "These kinds of issues, whether they be the gas cards or increases in pay, oversight of a contract — they really had no one minding the store."

The district attorney's office is already conducting a criminal investigation into Coliseum finances after the arena after several consecutive years of financial losses.

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