by MBJ Staff Published: November 18,2012
Tags: gouging, law enforcement, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, payment, pricing, refund, settlement, state government
JACKSON — Attorney General Jim Hood is reminding consumers and businesses entitled to a cash refund from a private billion-dollar LCD screen settlement fund that the deadline for applying is approaching. The fund is made up of settlements with 10 manufacturers over an illegal conspiracy to raise the price of LCD (thin-film transistor liquid display) [...] [...]
TAYLORSVILLE — Southern Pine Electric Power Association has announced $2.5 million in capital credit refunds for the 2011 fiscal year. SPEPA general manager Donald L. Jordan says refund checks will be mailed starting in mid-December. Jordan says checks will be issued for amounts $25 and over. Customers getting less than $25 will receive a credit [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 12,2012
Tags: audit, auditing, auditor, bond, crime, criminal, elected official, embezzle, embezzlement, embezzler, investigation, law enforcement, money, public official, refund, repayment, state agency, steal, stealing, tax, taxpayer, theft, thief
BROOKHAVEN — Mississippi Auditor Stacey Pickering has closed his office’s investigation into embezzlement by a former Lincoln County Circuit Clerk. Pickering last week delivered a check for more than $61,000 to Lincoln County Supervisors. The Brookhaven Daily Leader reports the check represents the last of the money the auditor’s office says Terry Lynn Watkins had [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 9,2012
Tags: Closing, closure, economic development, employee, employer, employment, fund, funding, government, grant, hardware, incentive, job, layoff, refund, repayment, state agency, storage, unemployment, warehouse, warehousing, work, worker
Handy Hardware, a Texas-based hardware store cooperative, plans to close its two-year-old Meridian warehouse on Dec. 31, laying off 109 workers. The Mississippi Business Journal earlier reported the facility was closing after receiving a release from the Office of Mayor in Meridian. Mississippi Development Authority spokesman Dan Turner said the state contributed a $3.6 million [...] [...]
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