State Auditor Shad White issued the following statement.
Today State Auditor Shad White announced that Special Agents from his office have arrested Megan Berry, former Caledonia Park Commission (CPC) Treasurer, on one count of embezzlement. Berry is accused of taking public funds that came into her possession by virtue of her employment with the CPC and pocketing the money for her own personal use. “We will continue to work with prosecutors on cases big and small to get results for the taxpayer. This is how we’ve recovered more money in the last six years than any other six-year period,” said Auditor White. “Thank you to our investigators who helped uncover this scheme.” Berry faces up to $25,000 in fines and 10 years if convicted. All persons arrested by the Mississippi Office of the State Auditor are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Suspected fraud can be reported to the Auditor’s office online at any time by clicking the red button at www.osa.ms.gov or calling 1-(800)-321-1275 during normal business hours. |
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Did someone say parks?
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Is that a birthmark or a tattoo?
Bonus points for wearing a god hustling sweatshirt in her mugshot!
Milking those surety bonds again. And again the interest and investigative costs outweigh the amount stolen. I hope FCCI/Brierfield asks Shad for an itemized list of what all went into the investigative costs. I know it took a few dollars, but he’s embellishing to make a profit I believe. Most likely the proof was handed to him by someone at the city.
If you ask me, that tee takes The Lord's name in vain. In any case, let this (and similar Shad arrest photos) be a wakeup call to all of us, to purge all wearing apparel from our homes, which we would not want to be wearing, should we be dragged off to jail.
I hope lawyers are asking for itemized statements of Shad's recovery.
I smell a new Shad book:
"Caledonia Coruption: a shocking story about a clerk at the
Caledonia Mississippi Park Commission"
How does the 'cost of recovery' equal exactly the amount of the stolen money?
Using the exact amount allegedly stolen for “cost of recovery” turns it from “nice job auditors” to “look, more Shadrack grandstanding”.
It almost seems like Shad is being now coached by Philbilly. Something like, "Look Shad you can go from State Auditor to Governor in no time. If you're the State Auditor or State Treasurer, you can cover for everyone, or appear to be getting bad actors, all while you're one."
Most state auditors, you never hear a word about them because they're actually not very popular - that's the nature of the job function.
In Mississippi - it's a platform for social justice, or book publishing, or whatever you want it to be (kind of like Attorney General) and all you have to do is leave the big fish alone.
Mississippi's elected officials are thick as thieves.
How many of Shad's conquests have gone to court and been found guilty?
the ''cost of recovery'' is a tidy little fee the defendant pays for the privilege of being prosecuted.
There is apparently an endless list of government entities who have their own clerks, bookkeepers, etc. who “handle their own money” and from which one can steal.
What? No "low hanging fruit" comment? The KF trolls are slipping.
I'm starting to think that the morons here who rant about investigative costs, low hanging fruit, politic'ing by the auditor's office, and belief that our laws should not be enforced are afraid that Shad will discover their own thefts.
Thank you, Shad, for recovering every penny stolen from us. Most of us realize that the money you recover from thieves offsets what we taxpayers otherwise would be paying to fund your office and helps you find the big cheaters and thieves in addition to the little ones. Good job.
These one-horse town government clerical positions have lots of perks, including profit sharing.
@6:11 A friend who used to work as an investigator at the Auditor's office told me that the perps almost always plead out. By the time demand letters like the one above are issued, the investigators have made an air-tight case for the prosecutors. The perp pleads guilty and gets a reduced sentence. That sentence usually includes repayment of the stolen funds, interest, and investigative costs. Those who can't repay get put on a payment plan. There are a ton of folks repaying their stolen funds a little at a time - some of them will be paying for decades.
$10k is $10k. Word should be spreading through the little fiefdoms/thiefdoms that odds of getting caught are increasing and that's sort of the point - deterrent. Good work, Shad.
It is all low hanging fruit so need to point that out.
@11:02 AM - The first KF troll rose to the occasion. Good job.
Shad’s special agents can arrest a clerk but can not touch Dean Scott or the former Richland mayor who stole tens of thousands of dollars from the citizens of Rankin County through their no show jobs with the Rankin County Tax Assessors Office. Even the Rankin County DA won’t touch it. The entire case has been handed over to the Attorney General’s Office where it can go and die.
Remember this in a few years when these people ask for your vote.
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