Buried in a torrent of election stories on Tuesday was the announcement by the legislative auditor that there were noncompliance issues found in its audit of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's office.

The Minnesota Legislative Auditor is a nonpartisan watchdog that audits state government agencies.

With fraud allegations rocking state programs , the legislature has given the agency an additional $1.24 million to conduct more investigations. The special review unit of the office investigates alleged major fraud, including the Feeding Our Future scandal .

Another division of the legislative auditor's office, the financial review division, conducts routine audits every four years of government offices.

In its most recent audit of the governor's office, there were 12 noncompliance findi

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