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Thank you Shad. We need a lot more like you.

Wasn't he "entitled" to that money, i.e. kind of like free stuff?

I'm going to guess that 80% of the Chancery Clerks and Tax Collectors in this state are crooked as snakes. While the workers in water department drive-thrus steal two thousand bucks, these elected officials are stealing hundreds of thousands. Then they either slip under the radar, commit suicide or die.

From 2008 all the way to 2016?? Why was this not caught before now? Sounds like someone was asleep at the wheel for 8 years...

So did he pocket the funds withheld for employees? Or did he send all of the excess funds to the county’s general fund (above the $160k he overpaid himself)?

Nice work Shad. Kudos to you and your staff. I don't know if Mr. Tolliver was a crook, sloppy in his management, or just unsure of the rules. But regardless the money should be returned.

Interesting article by "WLBT 3 On Your Side" about Wilkinson County. Mr. Tolliver is mentioned throughout.

http://www.wlbt.com/story/36525109/3-on-your-side-investigates-following-the-money/

Some very questionable stuff.

Good luck getting that money....I bet his estate is rather small...and the cash is gone.

The thing is-
He died believing he got away with it.
And he will never know differently.

5:21 The reason this was not exposed by the previous Ms.State Auditor is because the last one was too busy Mickey Mousing around.

Have two clerks in my extended family (one Chancery & one Circuit; different counties). Both brag about all the grift they take through abuse of the county credit card and questionable expense reimbursements. One (Circuit) took 8 people out for a $1000 dinner at the steakhouse in the Beau Rivage, all on “the county.”

Both also act like the funds that come through their offices are like commissions they are entitled to.

Other than Shad, is there really that little oversight of these clerks?

Evan Doss - Claiborne County. Robert Taylor - Washington County. Doss was a rapscallion black, first of his race to occupy a county wide elected office. Taylor was chair of the deacons at First Baptist Church, a man of impeccable character and unquestioned honesty. Both got careless and were convicted, thanks to the State Auditor's office during the sixties and seventies.

This kind of oversight should be applied intensely to community college administrators who got gigantic, inflated salaries the last few years before their retirement as part of quid pro quo to name a building or street after a retiring board member......these kinds of backroom deals are done all the time, and the board minutes are altered to erase any record of the vote. Perhaps Mr. White can uncover hundreds of millions more in the community college system than the one million he already found.

@8:29, turn them in to law enforcement or you are complicit.

This will be like trying to get blood out of a turnip. The heirs have likely spent that money long ago, because it is just an extension of government "free stuff." You know, reparations and all.

It would actually be very simple to implement a state wide accounting system that would make such graft extremely difficult, if not impossible.


That Mississippi fails to do basic oversight is the reason we keep getting listed as the most corrupt State.


And, 6:16 am is correct. Too many opportunities for misuse of funds exists in the community college system. The Board for Community and Junior Colleges was NOT legislated as an oversight board but rather an " advocacy board". Worse, the junior college presidents immediately reacted to even the meager threat of the Board's creation by creating a foundation to re-establish their tight control.

I heard about this guy from a relative who had done some work in Wilkinson County. When Tollivar died, they had him LIE IN STATE in the Wilkinson County courthouse!!! A chancery clerk LIED IN STATE at the county courthouse. What in the world??

Thankful we now have a State Auditor who will actually do something!

Tolliver was convicted of voter fraud in the early 1980s but served no jail time and was not required to resign as Chancery Clerk.

What about the millions being stolen by City of Canton CMU Commissioners? Alderman appoint the commissioners and then take JOBS from CMU commissioners and are making six figures. What about that Shad White???

I’m really impressed with Shad White until someone tells me otherwise. He appears to be somebody who could one day actually be an effective Governor. Am I wrong?

9:55 - Actually your post reminds me of a president who was awarded a Nobel Prize on his first week in office - Just for being elected. The committee thought he deserved it. And 'nobody told them otherwise'.

Being a Chancery Clerk is a license to steal.

The Hinds County Chancery 2nd floor deed records vault looks like a mini Wal-Mart. Check it out.

There was a time when Chancery Clerks made small fortunes legally. The Legislature took that away from them in a burst of rationality. After that I suppose many of the poor bastards had to start stealing.

Shad is the real deal. I hope he keeps it up as Auditor for a couple of terms before he runs for higher office.

At one time, the Chancery Clerk in Madison County wore multiple other hats and was the highest paid elected public official in the State of Mississippi. His gravy train ran off the rails when he committed suicide. I don't recall his estate or family having to pay any money back.

Why isn't anyone going to jail?

Uh, because he’s dead. You ever tried to send a dead man to jail?

@8:06 Uh, the question is: Why aren't any of these embezzlers that White is uncovering going to jail. Yes, this one's dead, but should have been caught a long time ago by the last state auditor.....who was either aware of it, or too dumb to do his job.