Where's The Money, Mary?

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the government agency supported by tax dollars yet treated as the sole entity of Mary Frances Berry, was cooking the books it seems:

The meeting came a day after commission Staff Director Kenneth L. Marcus told a congressional subcommittee that the agency had failed to pay $75,000 in rent last year and that employees who won an equal opportunity complaint against the agency had not received the $188,000 partial payment owed them.

Marcus had more bad news yesterday, saying that the commission was more than likely underfunding its employee benefits package, and that budget shortfalls would force the board to consider a significant number of layoffs as it undertakes reforms recommended by the Government Accountability Office.

Commissioners said they had been kept in the dark on financial problems by former staff director Les Jin and the panel's former chairwoman, Mary Frances Berry. Two commissioners, Chairman Gerald A. Reynolds and Peter N. Kirsanow, asked Marcus whether he had uncovered any evidence of possible criminal wrongdoing. Marcus said he had not.

Of course they found no evidence of wrongdoing, the money was just misplaced in a desk drawer or something. No wonder Ms. Berry was doing anything possible to remain the leader of that upstanding commission.