Mississippi Business Journal » embezzling http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Tue, 21 May 2013 14:11:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Cooley sentenced for embezzling $500K from USDA program http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/04/cooley-sentenced-for-embezzling-500k-from-usda-program/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cooley-sentenced-for-embezzling-500k-from-usda-program http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/04/cooley-sentenced-for-embezzling-500k-from-usda-program/#comments Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:58:02 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=53406 HATTIESBURG — A Mississippi woman who worked as an office manager has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for embezzling more than $500,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development program and her unidentified employer. A federal judge yesterday sentenced Cynthia Cooley, of Hattiesburg, to 89 months in prison and ordered [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/04/cooley-sentenced-for-embezzling-500k-from-usda-program/feed/ 0 Circuit clerk resigns, pleads guilty to embezzlement http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/01/09/circuit-clerk-resigns-pleads-guilty-to-embezzlement/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=circuit-clerk-resigns-pleads-guilty-to-embezzlement http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/01/09/circuit-clerk-resigns-pleads-guilty-to-embezzlement/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:14:56 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=50425 BROOKHAVEN — The longtime circuit clerk of Lincoln County has resigned after pleading guilty to failing to properly deposit county money. Terry Lynn Watkins, 57, of Brookhaven, had been set to stand trial on embezzlement charges today. As part of her guilty plea, Watkins had to resign and agree not to run for circuit clerk [...]

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