Posts Tagged ‘State Auditor’s Office’

Pickering: Oversight program works, should be expanded

by Clay Chandler Published: April 26,2013

Tags: Performance Audit Division, public-private economic development partnerships, Stacey Pickering, State Auditor's Office

State auditor Stacey Pickering says his office’s Performance Audit Division has done yeoman’s work ensuring companies that receive state assistance to locate or expand here meet the conditions attached to it. That oversight authority, he added, needs to expand to include all public-private economic development projects, though, and not just those created under certain statutes. [...] [...]

Cities, counties in arears on court assessments

by Wally Northway Published: March 24,2010

Tags: county government, courts, municipal government, State Auditor's Office

JACKSON — State Auditor Stacey Pickering announced that special agents in the State Auditor’s Office have collected more than $1.038 million in unpaid court assessments since Feb. 22. These assessments collected at the city and county level were owed by the municipalities and counties, not by the taxpayers, and by law, these assessments must be [...] [...]

Ex-town clerk arrested for embezzlement

by Associated Press Published: February 17,2010

Tags: embezzlement, municipal government, State Auditor's Office

BURNSVILLE — Special agents in the State Auditor’s Office have arrested former Burnsville town clerk Elesha Dailey following a seven-count indictment charging her with embezzlement. A Tishomingo County grand jury returned the indictment on Dailey, the town clerk from 2004 to 2007 and deputy town clerk from 2002 to 2004. The Clarion-Ledger reports the indictment [...] [...]

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