Missing documents found in furnace room of Coventry town clerk’s office

copyright the Chronicle October 12, 2016

by Elizabeth Trail

COVENTRY — When selectman Scott Morley and auditor Jeff Graham walked through the doors of the Coventry town office early Monday morning, they saw Town Clerk and Treasurer Cynthia Diaz headed into the furnace room carrying a tub and a box of papers. She came back empty handed, Mr. Morley said.

The sight stuck in Mr. Morley’s mind all day. After Ms. Diaz left, he and Mr. Graham went to the furnace room and found what she had left there — a pile of Coventry tax and financial documents, including some that Mr. Graham, a forensic accountant, has been requesting for the past year.

Mr. Graham snapped a picture of the items sitting on the floor just inside the furnace room door.

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