"Arkansas Governor's Office Under Fire for $19,000 Lectern Purchase Audit"

A legislative audit in Arkansas found that the purchase of a $19,000 lectern by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s office potentially violated state laws, including shredding a document that should have been preserved and mishandling the purchase process. However, the state attorney general stated that state purchasing laws do not apply to the governor or other executive branch officials, potentially making the findings moot. Sanders criticized the report, posting a video mocking the controversy on social media, and her office claimed that no laws were broken. The audit's potential violations will be forwarded to the prosecuting attorney and the attorney general's office.