Thursday, May 26, 2022

Hushpuppy Justice: $3.6 Million Demand for Jacob Black in DHS Scandal

 State Auditor Shad White issued the following statement. 

Today the Office of State Auditor Shad White served a civil demand for $3,648,557.60 on former Deputy Director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services (DHS) Jacob Black. The demand requires Black to repay misspent Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (commonly called “welfare”) money.

Black was served with this demand based on audit findings from the Office of the State Auditor and new findings released in April 2022 by an independent CPA firm reviewing DHS spending. The audits found Black assisted a vendor, NCC Ventures, in violating procurement procedures. NCC Ventures has already been issued a demand by the Auditor for work that was not completed and has been sued by the State of Mississippi.

Black’s demand is also based on his role assisting the flow of welfare money to the Mississippi Community Education Center—a non-profit owned by Nancy and Zach New—and the Autism Center of North Mississippi. Nancy and Zach New have already been charged and pleaded guilty to state and federal charges in the largest public fraud scheme in Mississippi’s history.

The new findings from last month’s independent review can be found in a report published on the Auditor’s website.

“My team will continue the work we started over two years ago on this case, and continue working with all our state and federal partners, to make sure this case is fully investigated, top to bottom,” said Auditor White.

Because of an ongoing gag order, the Office of the State Auditor will have no additional comment at this time.


39 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Because of an ongoing gag order, the Office of the State Auditor will have no additional comment at this time."

Shad's probably twitching in his britches thinking about all the free press he's missing out on with this one.

Anonymous said...

And yet somehow Phil appears to be untouchable. Grow a pair Shad.

Anonymous said...

Yet still no demands for Pheel & Co.

Anonymous said...

SHAD WHITE FOR PRESIDENT, this is the first guy since ray mabus that has the guts to take on the thieves and fraudsters feeding at the public trough.

Yossarian said...

I thought Jacob Black was the one who blew the whistle to Phil Bryant??

Anonymous said...

@10:00 - except if you are Phil Bryant or anyone else of political clout in the good ole boys club. Scared Shad is as crooked as everyone he protects.

Anonymous said...

These people are utterly disgusting.

I cannot imagine being this depraved and soul-less.

It seems that every government job at city, state and federal levels needs to be audited. And that must be performed by someone not already on the dole.

Just incredibly depressing how unfixable this all seems on a grand scale.

Anonymous said...

Shad & Baby Ray, the only auditors with full time public relations apparatus for self promotion- must have learned at Harvard College.

Anonymous said...

@10:00am - Thanks for stopping by, Shad. Still waiting on the Pheel report.

Anonymous said...

Have a friend who works there. Rumor is he left there and works for another state agency.

Anonymous said...

@10:32am - Cool story.

Anonymous said...

Good thing Black wasn't an assistant in the Bugtussle Maintenance Department who used a Fuelman card to fill up his personal ride to get to work once or twice. If he had been, there would have been criminal charges. He's such a perfect Republican. Press releases and demands, no actual action. I do believe he is Governor material.

annonymus said...

he is now working the Division of Medicaid

An ounce of prevention beats a pound of cure said...

What's the chances of collecting $3,648,557.60 from a former gubmint bureaucrat?

Anonymous said...

Yet, his actions and those of others don’t warrant indictments. Funny.

Anonymous said...

It’s going to be interesting to see how they handle the AG assistant attorneys who signed off on many of the contracts as well.

Anonymous said...

Boil white perch off the bone then use the meat and mix it with corn meal and fry. Got dang it's sooo good. Fish puppies....or balls.

Anonymous said...

This is despicable.

Shad is now attacking to protect himself.

Charge the whistleblower.

Anonymous said...

Another stellar "Mississippi School of Law" grad bringing fame to the school.

Anonymous said...

to the wiseass at 10:35 am........10am here , i aint shad , but you are a fake news whimp.

Anonymous said...

to 10:15...............unlike your whimp ass, ''scared shad'' dont hide behind an anonymous post.

Anonymous said...

Here's a shocker for everyone. People who steal money almost never have the ability to pay it back. Forget the money demand. Just lock them up and throw away the key.

Anonymous said...

but but but, Phil (through Jacob Black) was the whistleblower.

Anonymous said...

USM Athletic Association? Lobaki? Longwitz?

Anonymous said...

I hope there's more behind that gag order, because the way Shad's statement reads, you could make demands against Black's secretary for dropping his letters in the mail.

Anonymous said...

Interesting that it takes CLA to retrieve and disclose these emails. The way Shad has talked for over two years, only a few people were to blame for this “sprawling conspiracy.”

Anonymous said...

It is difficult to get a man to see something when his salary depends upon his not seeing it.

Anonymous said...

@ 10:00

Bless your heart if you think Ray Mabus was some kind of hero with guts.

Anonymous said...

https://www.wlox.com/2021/10/04/company-tied-attorney-generals-staffer-questioned-tanf-misspending-auditors-say/

Anonymous said...

Shad just sent the message that whistleblowers are subject to retaliation.

Anonymous said...

Hope fellow "whistleblower" Gov. Bryant is next.

Anonymous said...

When you talk to Ray, you might want to start the conversation with "are you tape recording this?"

Anonymous said...

Isn't it interesting that the news media outlets had this as a story all day long but at 6pm the story got buried?

Anonymous said...

OMG @ 6:44

That link deserves to be its own post

Anonymous said...

You are protected as a whistleblower, but only if you are not found to have committed egregious acts. Otherwise, John Davis himself could have called and told that felonious acts were transpiring, and he'd gotten off free.

Jacob Black was found to have committed crimes and thusly is getting punished for it. And yes, he went to the Department of Medicaid as a director.

Anonymous said...

Were these contracts reviewed by attorneys working for the AG? And isn't the AG very personally close to this Coughlin character? Jacob Black is actually an humble, young public servant who was likely following direction from John Davis, Phil Bryant and Joey Songy and the AG’a office. Shad seems to be using this latest demand to deflect from himself and his mentor Phil Bryant and their minions both those related and unrelated.

Anonymous said...

"Were these contracts reviewed by attorneys working for the AG? And isn't the AG very personally close to this Coughlin character? Jacob Black is actually an humble, young public servant who was likely following direction from John Davis, Phil Bryant and Joey Songy and the AG’a office. Shad seems to be using this latest demand to deflect from himself and his mentor Phil Bryant and their minions both those related and unrelated."

Ha, that lil joker is not humble! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Anonymous said...

There are at least 3 or 4 other former DHS Executives who signed off on and approved contracts and programs, in addition to various AG Attorneys. Can we expect them to receive demands as well?

Anonymous said...

Shad and Co trying to get rid of and sully anyone who could provide testimony against his investigation and Phil…..they’re scrambling to tie up loose ends. More of the truth is coming out and it’s not flowing with the story Shad’s wanted us all to believe for over 2 years.


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