Jackson Jambalaya

When they are unknown and poor, Shad gets em. When they are former elected officials pass

The legislature has to create a mechanism that ends all relationships with PERS for these people.

If you get caught doing these crimes, you are refunded the employee contributed principal portion of your retirement and removed from any additional state employment, or retirement benefits.

I promise if the state will hit these retirements, this shit will stop.

She won't need those sunglasses-

Seems like the ones that get caught stealing in government are usually white and mostly GOP.

It begs the question " How is it that you are so sure that it's Democrats and African Americans that are crooked, but the white GOP can't come up with evidence that proves it?"

Could it really be only that the GOP believes everyone is as corrupt as they've become?

Government sucks at doing stuff. That someone can alter their timesheets after approval and get paid based on the alterations is evidence that government shouldn't be doing whatever it is that they are doing here.

Shad bags another small fry.
Big fish remain unthreatened

The slamming of some cell doors (instead of bracelets) will send clear messages.

I am waiting for all of the anonymous experts on the functions of the auditors office will be running to go after the targets of their choice…

Better not hold my breath. Lol

@10:43

I fail to see the correlation between someones political affiliation and the crime committed.

In the same vein, where in the article does it indicate what her political affiliation is???

STOP MAKING EVERYTHING IN LIFE ABOUT POLITICS

Shad only fishes for little fish. Don’t want to piss off the forever Trumpers.

In other states this would not even be worthy of a press release. Gotta do anything to prop up his inevitable ladder climbing campaign for governor/lieutenant gov.

Still waiting for the USM volleyball fraud arrests of those in the know that haven’t been arrested yet

"Low hanging fruit" comments in 3, 2, 1... Hey, if it weren't for the low hanging fruit there wouldn't be any fruit at all.

Are we still waiting on the Stacey Pickering robbing veterans affairs board case or did I miss it?

Y'all small fish people do realize Shad has recovered like $70 million during his time as Auditor, right? I would assume he's done that by going after some big fish unless some of these little old ladies are some real whales.

10:51 with the win

Altering a time sheet after a supervisor signs it is stupid. No supervisor checks a timesheet. He/she simply signs what the employee slides under his/her nose. Period. The supervisor has other minnows to land, like logging his comp time and leaving early.

Well Shad popped the Canton Utility District corruption for 6 figures several years ago. He turned it over to our Attorney General since Shad can’t enforce demands. So what has happened?

10:43 . . . You lose! Everything is NOT always about race or politics. Turning this into something it's not. This article is simply about a thief getting caught.

Shad bags another woman in a tshirt. He loves picking on folks out in the sticks but can’t seem to find any corruption in Jackson. Weird.

He lets his buddies go and screws with good people.

@10:43 I agree with you. The Republicans steal and the Democrats are usually just incompetent. Both waste the taxpayers money. Good call.

@10:43 I know I've read over the article twice but can you tell me where it states her party affiliation?

I must echo @12:14 Stop Making Everything In Life About Politics

Kingfish -

Could you please break down the demand?
What was the actual amount stolen?
What are the investigative costs?
What are the interest and penalties?

If Kingfish cannot get this information, I am 99.9% sure Shad White reads this. Shad - break this and other investigations down for us. Thank you.

@4:56 - you agreed with a comment that drew an invisible correlation between politics and these thefts. That comment was unfounded and stupid. Since you agreed with a stupid comment, help me understand why that doesn't make YOU stupid.

4:43, ‘good people’ don’t steal from their employer and from the taxpayers, sorry, she’s a thief and this not a ‘good person’.

How to make yourself look better:

Theft: $2500
Investigation cost: $5000
Drag out the investigation to run up interest: $7500

Make demand for $15,000 on a $2500 crime.

what incompetent does mug shots with shades on their heads

Is she throwing up a gang sign?

@ 8:40 - The incompetence of which you speak is on the part of the Jail Employee who did not require that she remove the shades. (But they know each other anyway, so there's that.)

I appreciate every single bust that Shad makes. Pennies add up. No crime is too small to prosecute.

Why aren't these low-level state employees required to punch a timeclock rather than handwriting time sheets? I may be wrong, but I think there are secure computer programs that act as a timeclock. Employee logs in and out and the program calculates time worked. Of course, I'm being generous to assume that people are actually "working" while sitting in front of their state-issued computers, but we could at least track number of hours they are physically at the office.

Dec 12, 10:43 AM, it’s hard to imagine a comment like yours when it comes to criminals and crime. Why do so many rich white Democrats live in areas that are not controlled by their own party? Crime. They vote Democrat but won’t live in Democrat controlled Jackson, as an example. True hypocrites.

We should all be extremely grateful that this $16k + and the reported herein $70 million has been recovered, but when it comes to per capita horrific crimes, crimes like children being murdered, and children being killed with stray bullets, Democrat controlled cities like Jackson get the headlines “State capital became one of the deadliest US cities” ‘We’re being known as the child-killing capital.’

Shad is definitely the brightest light in MS politics. That light is dimmed by the TANF scandal. If he’s not going after Bryant the people should hear why. There is no rational justification for how the money was spent. Wrasslin and vball may be good red meat expenditures but they’re not justifiable. The people know when there is hypocrisy and TANF will be the issue that keeps him out of the governor’s mansion or the next us senate seat

5:47 - Even your presumptive, ill-conceived suggestion would never work. But you work in the private sector where those on payroll are often monetarily rewarded based on the number of suggestions offered, whether nutty or not.

For a time-clock to calculate hours by time actually AT work would depend on the employee punching in and out as appropriate. Try harder, but be sure you leave promptly at 5.

To 7:58 - He initiated and documented the investigation to the limits of his duty, then turned the investigation over to the feds. He had no duty nor authority to continue the investigation a year and a half later. Turn your cap around.

"But you work in the private sector where those on payroll are often monetarily rewarded based on the number of suggestions offered, whether nutty or not."

Clearly, you are not familiar at all with the private sector. But, don't let that stop you from commenting on it, Cliffy.

"He lets his buddies go and screws with good people. "

This woman stole money from the taxpayers. That includes my wife and I, who pay a huge amount of them. We appreciate Shad's efforts to keep this system as honest as it could be.

I suspect many of the commenters here, criticizing him for doing his job, represent the large amount of deadbeats in MS who don't pay much to MS in terms of taxes.

I own a business. I compensate my employees based solely on how much profit they make for me. It’s a good system that works. I don’t care about your race, religion, or political beliefs. It is a pure meritocracy. Make me richer, and I will toss a few C-notes your way. I wouldn’t expect some bum who’s sucking on the government tit to understand this concept.

What ever happened on the Canton engineer trial? Did the CMU board members ever get prosecuted?

Only a fellow freeloader, liar, fraudster, thief…would criticize Shad’s investigation into any crimes in Mississippi. If you’re writing big tax checks like the honest among us, you are all for Shad weeding out these POS employees.

@2:07 - I criticize Shad. If you write bigger tax checks than I do, te salud!

Shad's light is made to seem brighter because he's surrounded by more than a few dim bulbs.

Can't push a rope up hill, but you can put on a show trying.

@2:07pm

"Only a fellow freeloader, liar, fraudster, thief…would criticize Shad’s investigation into any crimes in Mississippi. If you’re writing big tax checks like the honest among us, you are all for Shad weeding out these POS employees."

True when it comes to your big tax bill - but hundreds absolutely know how Shad is looking the other way regarding far bigger fish, and he's as slimy as they are, and as corrupt and compromised as all of them. No one speaks up in Mississippi because when you're close to it, you're most likely employed by state government and so you don't want to lose your job or be hated by everyone else around you.

Poor folks chasing PERS retirement is what maintains and keeps their silence about all the corruption in Mississippi. Even Shad says to please call him if you know something. That's the only way he finds out is from the rare informer who doesn't give a shit about PERS or their job. Everyone else is in lock step.

7:06am, you make a lot of slanderous allegations but have no examples or facts. Please provide such examples of what you speak of Shad looking the other way on State crimes so we can decide for ourselves. Please be specific. Thanks