State Auditor Stacey Pickering issued the following statement.
State Auditor Stacey Pickering Confiscates Over 75 Firearms and Issues
Nearly $400,000 Demand in Ecru, Mississippi
City of Ecru officials notified the State Auditor’s Office after internal discrepancies were discovered. The OSA Investigative Division determined that the embezzled funds were used to purchase over 75 firearms, which have been seized by the Office of the State Auditor and submitted as evidence in the case, which the Office of the Attorney General State of Mississippi will prosecute.
“The auditors and investigators in the State Auditor's Office are crucial in unraveling schemes by some public official to steal from the taxpayers," said General Hood. "I applaud their efforts to hold officials accountable and deter others from getting greedy."
Stacey Pickering, State Auditor of Mississippi, held a press conference at the Pontotoc County Court House in Pontotoc, Mississippi, saying: “I appreciate the work of Jim Hood and the Attorney General’s Office in assisting in prosecuting this case along with the hard work of the OSA team. Any time public funds are embezzled, it is a travesty, especially in towns like Ecru where the trust of neighbors, friends, and family is betrayed.”
Moody and Blaylock are jailed in the Pontotoc County Adult Detention Center under bond for $30,000 and $20,000, respectively. Arraignment for both is set for September 26, 2017.
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Kingfish note: If you don't know where Ecru is, it is next to Ingomar. One serious question: Does Ecru actually have $400,000 to steal?
13 comments:
I see no problem with this, I believe in the 2nd Amendment.
that is $5333 per gun. something doesn't add up.
"Does Ecru actually have $400,000 to steal?"
Not anymore, duh.
What was the point? Just to have a bunch of guns and go shooting on the weekends? Or were guns being sold to criminals from Memphis, New Orleans, and Chicago?
The grand total includes cost of the investigation and interest on the total stolen.
Cost and interest is a large part of the total according to the press release.
Dan Bilzerian wannabes.
2:01. Say your argument is right and 1/2 went for investigation and interest. The gun costs are now $2666. Something still doesn't add up.
Judging by the jowls and cheeks I would say the cash went to the local Popeye's.
KF: You just went over most readers heads with the Bilzerian comment. Lol
I'd never heard of 'Ecru', and looked it up. The town has less than a thousand residents. However, it DOES have the largest upholstered furniture plant IN THE WORLD. I'd imagine the Ashley Furniture plant accounts for the fact that the city has money to steal.
Oh, and 8:25, Bilzerian is hardly someone known only to intellectuals. He's a spectacular guy, who runs around barely-clothed, surrounded by spectacular barely-clothed women, doing an assortment of anti-intellectual things. He's all over the Internet. Kingfish's readers ALL have Internet access.
Heavens!
Did Ashley Furniture hire a Muslim?
11:38...Let me break this to you carefully. There IS no upholstered furniture plant in Ecru, or anywhere else IN THE WORLD. In fact the materials are brick, wood, tin and glass. It's an upholstery factory.
Ghost of La Z Boy.. said...
"11:38...Let me break this to you carefully. There IS no upholstered furniture plant in Ecru, or anywhere else IN THE WORLD. In fact the materials are brick, wood, tin and glass. It's an upholstery factory."
September 15, 2017 at 9:27 AM
Tell it to Wikipedia, honey, 'cause I just parroted the phrasing there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecru,_Mississippi
My extended family's been in Reinforced Plastics, since 1959. "Fiberglass plant", is how we've always referred to our facilities, from Lafayette to Manila to Gulfport. My grandfather had "lumber yards" and "lumber mills". I'm sure we've been using incorrect terminology, for generations. Please - carefully - point out the errors of our ways.
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