This was an excellent documentary on how people can totally miss the obvious AND show the greatest of malfeasance. Some comments were made about the poor cinematic effort but that is totally missing the point of the documentary. Forget the camera 'angles' and concentrate on the subject at hand. A person was able to abuse her power for over 20 years and no one caught her in the act until a total fluke exposed the house of cards.
Based on my over 45 years of financial management experience, there were many, many culpable people that should have discovered this much sooner. Good financial management and oversight would have prevented this right from the beginning. The people of the town suffered because of the extremely poor management by the city council. And then on top of that they had a very poor and maybe the worst example of financial oversight by a CPA firm I have ever seen.
As I mentioned, I spent 45 years in senior level financial management assignments and I saw a great deal of insider and criminal activity. This was nothing new, but it did show how stupidity, incompetence, and ignorance aided in taking this to the level it did. People should watch this show for the very reason stated at the end - it is an on going issue and someone somewhere will try it again.