State Auditor Stacey Pickering issued the following press release:
State Auditor Arrests and Issues Demands Against Former Mississippi Department of Transportation Employees
JACKSON,
Miss. – Special Agents from the State Auditor’s Office and Mississippi
Department of Transportation (MDOT) Enforcement arrested former MDOT
employees, Clyde Poole, Jr., 28, of Batesville; Connie Shegog, 30, of
Batesville; and Torrie Willey, 36, of Batesville, after they were each
indicted on one count of embezzlement by a Panola County Grand Jury.
In
addition to today’s arrests, Poole was issued a demand in the amount of
$1,394.51, Shegog was issued a demand in the amount of $12,751.02, and
Willey was issued a demand in the amount of $101.36.
The
Auditor’s Office received a complaint from MDOT that there were
individuals misusing the Fuelman cards. The investigation shows that
Poole and Shegog were using MDOT Fuelman cards to purchase fuel for
semi-truck drivers. Often times, Shegog used his Fuelman card to
purchase gas for a privately owned semi-truck and then collect cash from
the truck’s driver. In addition to purchasing fuel for truck drivers,
Poole, Shegog, and Willey used MDOT’s Fuelman cards to purchase fuel for
their personal vehicles.
“I
would like to thank MDOT for working closely with my office on this
case,” said State Auditor Stacey Pickering. “I hope we are beginning to
send a strong message, that anyone who misuses taxpayer funds will be
held accountable for their actions.”
"MDOT
discovered violations involving use of state funds through internal
controls and immediately began an investigation that included a report
of the incident to the Mississippi Office of the State Auditor," said
Melinda McGrath, MDOT executive director. "The Auditor's office, working
with MDOT Enforcement, began to build a case based on this report."
"We
appreciate the State Auditor and his team, and fully support the
actions they are taking in this matter," McGrath said. "MDOT does not
tolerate the misuse of taxpayer dollars."
15 comments:
I just had to look up the name 'Shegog'. An image search yielded people who look 'Melungeon', but the name is Welsh/Scottish. Apparently, Mississippi leads the nation in Shegogs, followed by Pennsylvania. Faulkner found the name intriguing, it seems. There was a Shegog family in his fiction.
Rowan Oak was built by the Shegog family, before the Civil War.
$101.36 Good work Pickering...
What was this Shegog guy doing, hanging around truck stops and running up to the drivers?
"Hey! I'll fill up your truck and you can pay me 80% and keep the rest, because I respect the truck driving industry."
Sounds legit.
Looks to me like Willey filled up his pickup twice on his company card. Still illegal, but nothing like what the other two were doing.
Some of you need to get a grip on reality. Pickering wasn't going after the guy that stole $101 in gas. That guy got caught up in the theft of fuel that the other two were responsible for. Shegog has probably been in it for awhile.
Those who commented on Shegog....thanks for your absolutely meaningless contributions to the discussion.
Now, I'm wondering why they are all 'former employees'. Were their job separations related to the investigations?
Ethel, ye Great Arbiter of Meaningfulness, I really don't give two dingleberries off a billygoat's butt for your valuations of others' contributions. I, too, wondered, "Whut the hell kinda name is 'Shegog'?". And now I know.
$101 is a terrible reason to get fired from a cushy underpaid state job. Those guys will have to get real jobs and work 40 hours a week now.
Wonder if they will get time like the Mayor of Terry just got today? Absolutely astounded with the sentence he received. I hear they changed Judges on him when the other one was going to let him plead. The whole Pickering/Terry affair has a strange smell to it.
I don't care if its $100 or $100,000, I think its good when even rank and file public employees are reminded that it's taxpayer money they are using for their personal gain (stealing gas is no exception), and they should be punished for it.
When do we find out who the mdot employees were who filled up on the way to the ole miss game?
@8:18-Pickering should audit the productivity of state employees. He's find that the amount of time they stand around doing nothing costs the taxpayers more than $101
I agree with 12:45. Although the only difference was that the truck on the way to the Ole Miss game was a State vehicle and these were personal vehicles.....the fact remains all the vehicles were used for personal use, not state use, and were fueled at citizens' expense.
A guy was caught pumping Ethel behind the service station and was sentenced 10 years...
11:55 A.M., many "young sprouts" will not get it, but your "pumping Ethel" comment was priceless! Good on you!!!
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