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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto (peh-DOO'-toh) is calling for an audit of an authority the state Legislature created in 2004 to oversee the city's then-failing finances. Peduto called for the audit after the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported that the Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority didn't have financial records for most of its expenditures since 2004. State Auditor General Eugene Pasquale says the authority is exempt from the state's open records law, under the legislation that created it. He says the missing records situation is "what happens when Harrisburg passes a law and they don't think about all the consequences." The authority was created to help Pittsburgh avoid bankruptcy when the city was nearly $1 billion in debt. The city is also disputing the authority's decision to withhold more than $10 million in revenues from the city's casino.

Pittsburgh mayor calls for audit of state watchdog board