(La Porte, IN) - La Porte County financial officials are trying to figure out how a county account has been overdrawn by over half a million dollars.

 

Last Monday the council held a special meeting to take emergency action.

 

Recently one of the county’s bank accounts was found to be overdrawn by over $618,000. The account in question pays for medical claims on behalf of county employees.

 

Council president Randy Novak and council attorney Guy DiMartino speculated that the money was simply coming out of the wrong account for unknown reasons.

 

The council voted to replenish the overdrawn funds from another county bank account. DiMartino said similar actions will likely need to be repeated until the cause of the error is determined and fixed.

 

The council has engaged a financial consultant to get to the bottom of the mix-up.