Anthony Amore brings more than 30 years of experience in investigations, audits, and inspections to his campaign for Massachusetts State Auditor. His career has spanned both the public and private sector, and he has served as a federal agent, senior Homeland Security Official, and museum security director. He is also the author of three best-selling books, including the New York Times Crime Best Seller The Art of the Con, which dissected high-value fraud schemes in the art world.
As an independent auditor, Anthony will strongly advocate for increased transparency across state government while leading by example.
Under Anthony’s leadership, the Auditor’s Office will adopt a “presumption of openness” policy similar to the federal policy enacted by U.S. Department of Justice.
One of the office’s first action items will be to eliminate its cumbersome and difficult-to-navigate process of posting audit findings on Mass.gov. A new, simplified website will allow residents to search by keywords or the name of a state agency and quickly uncover the findings and recommendations of previous audits. The Auditor’s Office will work closely with the Commonwealth’s Inspector General to model the new website on the IG’s groundbreaking work done with the CHTRU Payroll website, which allows residents to quickly uncover the salaries and spending habits of public employees and state agencies.
Anthony will use the Office of the State Auditor to forcefully advocate that the Legislature and Governor’s Office conform with the habits of 49 other state governments and allow some or all of their records to be made available to the public. As Auditor, Anthony Amore will incorporate abuse of the public records laws into audits of the Governor’s Office, Legislature, or any state agency that is not acting in good faith.
Finally, Anthony fully supports changing state law to allow the State Auditor to conduct audits of the Legislature. If the Legislature fails to pass these reforms, then Anthony has promised to support and campaign for a ballot question to make the Legislature subject to the public records laws, open meeting laws, and audits by the State Auditor.