Résumé flap leads auditor to resign from Dann’s office

Résumé flap leads auditor to resign from Dann’s office

COLUMBUS (AP) — The top fiscal watchdog inside Attorney General Marc Dann’s office resigned for failing to indicate on his résumé that he was no longer a licensed accountant, a newspaper reported today.

Rick Houze, paid $90,000 a year as an internal auditor, is the third high-ranking employee inside the attorney general’s office to be forced out this year over background problems.

Records from the Accountancy Board of Ohio show that Houze was licensed as a certified public accountant from 1991 through 1997, when he let it expire. When he applied to Dann’s office this year, however, Houze claimed to still hold the license, The Columbus Dispatch reported.

The attorney general’s office ran a criminal background check on Houze but did not check publicly available Accountancy Board records before hiring him in June, said Thomas Winters, the first assistant attorney general.

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