Posts Tagged ‘embezzlement’
by Associated Press Published: October 5,2011
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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 [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
PANOLA COUNTY — State Auditor Stacy Pickering has issued a demand of $292,772 from a former Panola County administrator accused of scamming the state out of retirement and overtime benefits. Pickering accuses Michael David Chandler, who lives in Grenada, of falsifying records to receive overtime benefits for which he wasn’t eligible. Pickering says Chandler retired [...] [...]
BROOKHAVEN — A judge has dismissed an indictment that accused Lincoln County Circuit Clerk Terry Lynn Watkins with eight counts of embezzlement. The Brookhaven Daily Leader reports Circuit Judge William Coleman issued the ruling yesterday after defense attorneys argued the ambiguity of the charges, that prosecutors were picking and choosing charges from the indictment, and [...] [...]
HANCOCK COUNTY — According to State Auditor Stacey Pickering, Stacie Stroud, former employee of Mississippi State University, has pled guilty to embezzling approximately $34,315 by using her state-issued procurement credit card for personal purchases. Stroud, 33, was an employee at MSU’s research facility located at the Stennis Space Center in Hancock County from Sept. 2007–Feb. [...] [...]
OCEAN SPRINGS — Two former employees of Hancock Bank’s main branch in Ocean Springs are now in the minimum-security sections of prisons in Florida, each serving an 8 1/2 year sentence for their roles in a multimillion-dollar embezzlement scheme. The Sun Herald reports Margaret Migues, former branch operations manager, is at Coleman Federal Correctional Complex [...] [...]
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