It is no secret.

From a newspaper report of an OPA board meeting, and also available as video:

By Josh Davis, Associate Editor

(Feb. 14, 2019) The only recent news on the forensic audit of Ocean Pines finances ordered last spring is that the effort continues and apparently involves the Bank of Ocean City.

The Ocean Pines Board hired Gross, Mendelsohn & Associates last April to perform the audit and work officially began a month or so later.

Finance Director Steve Phillips in August said auditors were looking into about $26,000 in deposits that allegedly went missing during the summer of 2017.

Last July, Phillips said, auditors met with a detective from the Worcester County Bureau of Investigations.

Since that time, Phillips said, “the work has really shifted to the [Worcester County Bureau of Investigations], working with that detective to actually try to gain some information from … Bank of Ocean City and work with them to understand what type of records they have and what we can get access to, as well as interviewing their chief security officer, as well as their CEO and president.”