TOPEKA (AP) – An investigator from an auditing firm that examined the Kansas Bioscience Authority says a supplemental report may be done to explain emails from the authority’s former CEO.

Jim Snyder, an auditor with BKD Forensic and Valuation Services, tells the Topeka Capital-Journal that an additional document may be produced to explain details about emails on a second computer used by Tom Thornton.

Snyder says some 52,000 email files were discovered on the laptop. Thornton’s second computer was mentioned in the Jan. 23 report, but not in great detail.

The audit looked at the KBA’s operations and expenditures since it was established in 2004. While it largely found that the KBA was investing state dollars properly, it criticized Thornton’s
destruction of files on his main state-issued laptop.