Auditing was done at the convenience of crown-appointed investigators, usually officials from the Fleet. One of these, Treasurer Andres de Eguino, discovered in 1569 that Steward Juan de Junco, Menendez’s earliest treasury appointee, had false scales with which he systematically cheated the king’s soldiers. AN14 Junco’s confederates at once initiated a cover-up. Lieutenant-Governor Las Alas refused Eguino the use of a boat to visit the fort on Cumberland Island and interview the substitute treasurer there. Magistrate Martin de Arguelles ordered Eguino to surrender the book containing his evidence. When the visitador tried to transport Junco and several key witnesses to Spain, Pedro Menendez Marquez, at that time acting governor of Cuba, treated his proposal with derision. [Note 13: Andres de Eguino Florida audit and visita, Havana, 8/9/1569 to 9/9/1570]