By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services/Arizona Capitol Times
State auditors are faulting the Arizona Commerce Authority for inflating the numbers it uses in claiming how many jobs it helped bring to the state.
In a new report Thursday, the Auditor General’s Office said the authority claims it is making progress toward achieving its five-year goal of creating 75,000 higher wage jobs. That goal also is to increase capital investment in Arizona by $6 billion between 2013 and 2017.
But audit manager Dot Reinhard said there’s really no way to tell exactly what the authority has done.
