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:
"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.
And yet somehow Phil appears to be untouchable. Grow a pair Shad.
Yet still no demands for Pheel & Co.
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.
I thought Jacob Black was the one who blew the whistle to Phil Bryant??
@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.
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.
Shad & Baby Ray, the only auditors with full time public relations apparatus for self promotion- must have learned at Harvard College.
@10:00am - Thanks for stopping by, Shad. Still waiting on the Pheel report.
Have a friend who works there. Rumor is he left there and works for another state agency.
@10:32am - Cool story.
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.
he is now working the Division of Medicaid
What's the chances of collecting $3,648,557.60 from a former gubmint bureaucrat?
Yet, his actions and those of others don’t warrant indictments. Funny.
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.
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.
This is despicable.
Shad is now attacking to protect himself.
Charge the whistleblower.
Another stellar "Mississippi School of Law" grad bringing fame to the school.
to the wiseass at 10:35 am........10am here , i aint shad , but you are a fake news whimp.
to 10:15...............unlike your whimp ass, ''scared shad'' dont hide behind an anonymous post.
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.
but but but, Phil (through Jacob Black) was the whistleblower.
USM Athletic Association? Lobaki? Longwitz?
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.
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.”
It is difficult to get a man to see something when his salary depends upon his not seeing it.
@ 10:00
Bless your heart if you think Ray Mabus was some kind of hero with guts.
https://www.wlox.com/2021/10/04/company-tied-attorney-generals-staffer-questioned-tanf-misspending-auditors-say/
Shad just sent the message that whistleblowers are subject to retaliation.
Hope fellow "whistleblower" Gov. Bryant is next.
When you talk to Ray, you might want to start the conversation with "are you tape recording this?"
Isn't it interesting that the news media outlets had this as a story all day long but at 6pm the story got buried?
OMG @ 6:44
That link deserves to be its own post
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.
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.
"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! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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?
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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