Recently the Turlock Budget Subcommittee found approximately 4 million dollars in an over-funded city insurance account.  In response, Turlock Councilman Ted Howze wrote a blistering editorial flatly accusing city finance staff of hiding millions of dollars in an insurance fund that he said was in “deep financial trouble”. In his editorial to the TurlockCityNews.com Ted declared that he was “on the trail” of the money and that a “pattern of corruption” would not be tolerated “under his watch”.  Ted also wrote “If a Fortune 500 company hid it’s sinking employee health fund from it’s board of directors and shareholders by redirecting dollars it claimed to have spent on research and development to the health fund, somebody would go to jail.”