KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – An audit finds widespread accounting problems with a Topeka foundation that tells the story of the Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation case, including nearly $621,000 in questioned costs.

The Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research was recently ousted from the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka. Concerns led to a
government-commissioned audit, which focused on three years of the foundation’s finances. The results were released Wednesday.

Site superintendent David Smith has said the initial results of the audit were so troubling that the park service suspended funding to the foundation.

Foundation attorney Clinton E. Patty says the audit makes unsupported claims. He says the foundation plans to sue in the next several weeks against a defendant still to be determined.