by Associated Press Published: March 22,2012
Tags: alderman, aldermen, audit, auditors, board of aldermen, chambers of commerce, credit card, entertainment, executive, investigation, mayor, misappropriation, restaurants, review, scam, scheme, sex
SOUTHAVEN — A Southaven alderman says he and fellow aldermen spent nearly six hours in a closed-door session Tuesday reviewing thousands of dollars in charges to Mayor Greg Davis’ since-canceled city credit card. Alderman Ronnie Hale said the state auditor’s office, which has already ordered Davis to repay more than $170,000 in personal charges, requested [...] [...]
SOUTHAVEN — The attorney general’s office has told a citizens’ group in Southaven that nothing in state law allows for the removal of a municipal official. The Commercial Appeal reports Concerned Citizens of Southaven has collected about 1,000 signatures demanding the removal of Davis, under fire for allegedly misspending thousands of dollars in public funds. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 2,2012
Tags: classes, county government, demand, education, law enforcement, lawsuit, misappropriation, state agency, state government, supervisor
JACKSON — Attorney General Jim Hood has filed suit against Hinds County Supervisor Robert Graham, demanding he repay money state auditors say he earned double-dipping while on the clock at his former city job. Auditor Stacey Pickering’s office contends Graham, between 2004 and 2007 as a Jackson police spokesman and 911 dispatch supervisor, earned almost [...] [...]
SOUTHAVEN — Southaven Mayor Greg Davis has attended his first board of aldermen meeting since he became a target of an investigation into his alleged misuse of city money. A number of people who spoke urged the embattled mayor to step down, but that’s something the city’s board of aldermen already failed to get him [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 19,2012
Tags: audit, mayor, misappropriation, municipal government, pay, salary, SCANDAL, stipend, taxes, taxpayers
SOUTHAVEN — A $145,000 annual salary already makes Southaven Mayor Greg Davis one of the highest-paid public officials in Mississippi. But the city also has been paying the mayor a little-known $35,000-a-year stipend for supervising water and sewer operations. The Commercial Appeals reports Mayor Pro Tem Greg Guy moved swiftly yesterday to ax that stipend [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 16,2012
Tags: audit, auditors, misappropriation, municipal government, repayment, SCANDAL, sex, state government, taxes, taxpayers
SOUTHAVEN — The Mississippi Auditor’s Office has reduced the amount of money that Southaven Mayor Greg Davis must pay as part of an investigation into the misuse of city funds. Davis has been under scrutiny since November when Mississippi Auditor Stacey Pickering told him to pay about $170,000 for allegedly improper billings, penalties and interest. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 16,2011
Tags: audit, DeSoto County, education, FBI, federal government, Greg Davis, Haley Barbour, investigation, Leland Speed, manufacturing, misappropriation, Mississippi Development Authority, municipal government, Phil Bryant, Politics, Stacey Pickering, taxes, taxpayers
Receipts show Southaven Mayor Greg Davis, a Republican who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2008 on a family-values platform, charged the city $67 for a purchase at a gay sex shop in Canada. The Mississippi auditor on Nov. 2 demanded Davis pay back more than $170,000 for personal expenses billed to taxpayers. There are no [...] [...]
SOUTHAVEN — A Southaven alderman says that he and others on the seven-member board did not use Mayor Greg Davis’ personal or city-issued credit cards and should not be liable for more than $170,000 that the state Auditor’s Office has ordered Davis to repay within 30 days. Alderman Greg Guy tells The Commercial Appeal no [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 30,2011
Tags: courts, defense, disaster recovery, hurricanes, lawsuit, manufacturing, military, misappropriation, severe weather, shipbuilding, tropical weather, Weather
PASCAGOULA — Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. has disclosed a federal civil investigation into allegations that its former parent — defense giant Northrop Grumman Corp. — used Hurricane Katrina relief funds to improperly recover shipbuilding costs. In its latest quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Newport News, Va.-based Huntington Ingalls said it is cooperating [...] [...]
GREENVILLE — The South Delta Regional Housing Authority’s Board of Commissioners has voted to place executive director A.J. Jefferson on administrative leave. The board made the decision after federal investigators this week brought new charges against Jefferson. She already faced trial on three counts of intimidating witnesses in a federal investigation. On Monday, she was [...] [...]
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