Legislative Auditor Roger Norman (left) and the lectern identified by the Sanders administration as costing $19,029.25 are shown in Little Rock in these 2023 file photos. Norman was attending a meeting of the Arkansas Legislative Audit Committee on Oct. 12, 2023, and the lectern was displayed in the Governor's Conference Room at the state Capitol on Sept. 26, 2023. (Left, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Stephen Swofford; right, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Thomas Metthe)
Arkansas legislative auditors concluded in a report released Monday that Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ office potentially violated several laws on budgeting, accounting, purchasing and tampering with public records related to the office’s purchase of a $19,000 lectern and travel case.
