Culture of Tax Dollar Misuse in N. Mississippi
The Mississippi State Auditor was in North Mississippi on Wednesday, wrapping up another embezzlement and fraud case. It’s just the latest in a string of cases where elected officials are accused of bilking taxpayer dollars.
David Chandler was the Panola County Administrator from 1987 to 2008. During that time, the state auditor says he got hundreds of thousands of dollars he was not entitled to.
The auditor says what started as a small investigation billowed into a much larger one involving a local hospital.
Mississippi State Auditor Stacey Pickering was in Batesville on Wednesday to make a final payment to Panola County Taxpayers.
“I return to the county 85-thousand 678 dollars,” said Pickering.
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4/18/12
Magnolia Tribune
