(State Auditor Rob Sand speaks to reporters during a June 4th, 2026 news conference at the Iowa Capitol. RI Photo)
Southwest Iowa (RI) — State Auditor Rob Sand says his office has identified serious discrepancies in Madison County’s financial records.
Auditors combed through 24 months of records — from June 1st of 2022 through June 30th of 2023. Sand says they found missing checks and unverified deposits.
Madison County Treasurer Amanda DeVos was arrested early last year and has been charged with theft, fraud, and felonious misconduct in office. She resigned last summer and is scheduled to go on trial this fall.
Sand says auditors from his office who did a cash count in Winterset found $221,000 worth of checks, cash, and coins sitting in the Madison County Treasurer’s office, and there was no proof of where more than a third of the money they saw that day came from.
Sand says DeVos also delayed or misdirected tax payments to schools, cities, and other entities in Madison County.
DeVos is accused of documenting that her property taxes and vehicle registration fees as paid.
Sand’s office has forwarded its two most recent audit reports to the county attorney and the sheriff in Madison County and to Iowa’s Attorney General and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.
In December, Madison County’s Board of Supervisors hired an accounting firm in Georgia to conduct future audits of the county’s finances rather than have the state auditor’s office do the work.
