Nebraska Sheriff: Polygraph Clears Me
The man in the middle of some small town missing money says he didn’t take the cash and insists he has the lie detector test results to prove it.
Johnson County Sheriff James Wenzl tells Nebraska Watchdog he reported the lost cash to the Nebraska Attorney General’s office a year ago, after a routine county audit. Wenzl says at first [...]
Money is MIA in Small Nebraska Town
A small town is missing some big money and a top state official is pushing for answers.
Nebraska State Auditor Mike Foley says at least $31,000 is missing from the Johnson County Sheriff’s office in Tecumseh, Nebraska. According to an audit released today the money, most of it cash, was under the direct control of Sheriff James [...]
High Court May Strike Down Anti-Corruption Law
The Supreme Court could be on its way to repealing a critical anti-corruption law that has protected the public from dishonest public servants and influence peddlers for years. The Honest Services Fraud Law has safeguarded the public interest by criminalizing any behavior that deprives citizens of “honest services.”
The Supreme Court is “skeptical” that the law [...]
Baltimore Corruption a Microcosm
“There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and more frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.”
Benjamin Franklin
Now it’s official: My mayor is a crook.
At least that’s what a jury of her peers declared Tuesday here in the People’s Democratic Republic of Baltimore.
Among those most astounded by the guilty [...]
Bad Bookkeeping at ACORN Costs $130,000 in Louisiana
Steve Beatty of the Pelican Institute reports:
New Orleans, LA – Oct. 8, 2009 More than two years before an ersatz pimp and prostitute raised troubling questions about Acorn Housing Corp.’s financial advice, Louisiana officials criticized the organization’s bookkeeping as it denied the group tens of thousands of dollars from a potential $1.5 million state contract.
The [...]
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