comptroller
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Origin of comptroller
By confusion with compt
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Take it from Brad Lander, a Mamdani ally and former New York City comptroller, whose office released a report on the pension funds’ investment returns last summer.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
Eugene Ludwig is chair of the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity and former U.S. comptroller of the currency.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026
The annulment of the PPC contract was requested last year by the office of the comptroller -- an autonomous body that examines how government money is spent.
From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026
The decision comes after Panama’s comptroller conducted an audit, alleging irregularities in the 2021 extension of a contract that had been granted to the CK Hutchison unit.
From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026
“I would thank you for precise information on this head, for I have not been able to get any,” he wrote to the comptroller of the treasury, Oliver Wolcott.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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