Steve Hughes reports in the Times Union a second Albany County comptroller’s audit this year identifies issues with Sheriff Craig Apple's use of money seized through criminal investigations. Comptroller Susan Rizzo said that, "state and federal forfeiture funds were donated to community based organizations, sports programs and town events which do not meet the criteria for law enforcement or criminal prosecution purposes." Apple pushed back on the second report. "(The) opinion that seems to be followed in this audit is a 27-year-old opinion that seems a bit archaic," Apple wrote in an Oct. 18 response to Rizzo's findings. "In addition, today all the more so, I see the need to fund youth sports, programs and organizations that promote positive youth engagements." Rizzo said that the vast majority of Apple's spending was permissible, with other expenses were more ambiguous, and other spending flatly not permissible. Forfeiture funds are supposed to be used for other criminal investigations and prosecutions, but Apple was giving some of the money to charities, such as $2,500 to the town of Knox for a fireworks celebration, and $2,000 to a United Way literacy program. The state comptroller’s office repeatedly has said that spending forfeiture funds on community programs is inappropriate. Read the full story in the Times Union.