California’s top librarian is accused of failing to produce $650,000 in missing funds linked to a literacy program started by country music star Dolly Parton in east Tennessee in 1995.
State legislators recently pelted Greg Lucas, the leader of the California State Library, with questions about the funds during a budget hearing on education, the New York Post reported on Friday.
The issue is connected to a foundation started by Parton called Imagination Library, which delivers free books to children. The program was set to be statewide in California in 2023, according to WJHL.
The outlet noted Parton created her library in 1995 to provide free books in her home county in east Tennessee.
During the hearing, state Sen. Shannon Grove (R) told Lucas he did not have documentation to show where the money went.
She then asked point blank, “Where’s the money?”
Lucas was appointed to lead the state library in 2014 by former Gov. Jerry Brown, ABC 10 reported.
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