Cell phone audit finds county still wasteful

Erie County auditors have found that dozens of the government's almost 700 cell phones and wireless devices remain assigned to former employees; some current workers downloaded games and images onto their phones; and calls go out late at night and on weekends to numbers with no apparent link to county business.

The auditors also reported that some high-level officials have both a cell phone and a BlackBerry wireless device "when one should be sufficient" and that phones have been passed from worker to worker with such frequency that the government no longer has an accurate list of who holds its cell phones.

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Does it ever end? Why in the hell do these folk need cell phones? At a time when the county is broke? Even if these phones are so badly needed, why in the hell don't they issue the simplest of simple cell phones, with no bells or whistles? This crap will never end, will it?