Pa. State Auditor General Eugene DePasquale gave an update on his investigation into the process used by Gov. Tom Wolf’s Administration to allow for businesses to receive a waiver during the COVId-19 Crisis.

In the two weeks since DePasquale started his investigation he said his office has already received more than three dozen complaints from businesses throughout Pennsylvania.

“We’ve had more correspondence on this and it’s over a 100 than any other audit I’ve ever done,” he said.

DePasquale said his office received complaints from multiple industries, more from real estate companies than any other, and mostly from small-to-medium sized businesses.

The audit is focused on three key objectives:

• Evaluating the criteria used to determine which businesses where life-sustaining in the first place.
• Investigating how the waiver program was developed.
• Looking into whether the granting of waivers was done fairly.

It will also include checking if “any outside influence played a part in the final decision,” according to DePasquale.

The state received a significant number of letters on behalf of certain businesses from lobbyists and legislators.