by Associated Press Published: January 10,2012
Tags: builders, construction, contractors, courts, embezzlement, homebuilders, homeowners, homes, houses, housing authority, kickbacks, law, plea, residences, residents
OXFORD — A building contractor pleaded guilty yesterday to participating in a kickback scheme involving the South Delta Regional Housing Authority, which promotes affordable housing for the poor in the impoverished Mississippi Delta.
Court records show Jimmy Johnson pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Oxford to aiding and abetting embezzlement. Johnson and housing agency director [...] [...]
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 again. She [...] [...]
ABERDEEN — The former administrator of Panola County has pleaded guilty to a federal embezzlement charge.
David Michael Chandler was charged with creating a fake company to fraudulently charge more than $50,000 in county collection fees from 2007 to 2008. He’s also accused of billing $33,500 for fraudulent construction fees and billing thousands more for overtime [...] [...]
CALHOUN COUNTY — Former Calhoun County Chancery Clerk Jess Moore has been indicted on two counts of embezzlement, according to the State Auditor’s Office.
State Auditor Stacey Pickering says in a statement than an audit by his office in March found more than $13,894 missing from the Land Redemption account as a result of the earlier [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 5,2011
Tags: automobile dealers, automobile dealerships, automobiles, Cars, consumer protection, courts, embezzlement, sentencing, trucks, vans, vehicles
OCEAN SPRINGS — A Coast businessman has been sentenced for embezzlement and must pay full restitution to his victims, according to Attorney General Jim Hood.
Rusty Lee Keenum, 37, of Ocean Springs, appeared before Judge John C. Gargiulo and pleaded guilty to two counts of embezzlement.
The judge sentenced Keenum to six years in the custody of [...] [...]
QUITMAN — A representative from the Mississippi State Auditor’s Office has told Clarke County officials there has been no evidence of theft found in accounts for the Clarke County Circuit Clerk’s Office.
David Huggins delivered the news to the Clarke County Board of Supervisors, according to WTOK television.
While there has been no stealing, Huggins said there [...] [...]
CARTHAGE — Following a joint investigation by District Attorney Mark Duncan’s office, the Leake County Sheriff’s Office, Carthage Police Department and the State Auditor’s Office, Renodda Dorman has been arrested for allegedly embezzling $60,916 from the Leake County Chamber of Commerce following a seven-month investigation.
Since 2001, Dorman was employed as the executive director of the [...] [...]
BRANDON — Fourteen people, including three employees of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi, have been indicted by a Rankin County grand jury on charges of insurance fraud, Attorney General Jim Hood said yesterday.
The investigation involved the State and School Employees Health Insurance Plan. Blue Cross/Blue Shield administers those health plans for the state.
An [...] [...]
BROOKHAVEN — State Auditor Stacey Pickering says Lincoln County Circuit Clerk Terry Lynn Watkins has been re-indicted on 14 counts of embezzlement.
In January, a judge dismissed an eight-count indictment.
Pickering says the 57-year-old Watkins, of Brookhaven, was served with the indictment today. No court date has been set.
The indictment alleges Watkins embezzled funds between May 2004 [...] [...]
GULFPORT — A former bookkeeper will serve two years in prison for embezzling a little more than $135,000 from a Gulfport law firm.
The Sun Herald reports that Circuit Judge Larry Bourgeois gave Heather Denise Parker the maximum penalty of 10 years Monday and suspended eight, leaving two to serve. He also ordered restitution.
Prosecutors say once [...] [...]
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