JACKSON- State Auditor Stacey Pickering along with the Mississippi State Tax Commission has recovered $211,737.65 that will be returned to the State’s General fund following a lower-than-expected collection at the contraband tobacco auction held October 27 in Tupelo.

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JACKSON- State Tax Commissioner Ed Morgan and State Auditor Stacey Pickering have announced that a public auction will be held Tuesday, October 27 to sell approximately 1 million cartons of discount brand cigarettes and small cigars that were discovered in Mississippi in April 2009.

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JACKSON- State Auditor Stacey Pickering announced today that Natalie Brooke Ward, former deputy Chancery Clerk in Jones County, has plead guilty to embezzlement and was sentenced to 12 years, five years suspended, with seven years to serve in a Mississippi Department of Corrections facility.

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JACKSON- A lawsuit that began in 2007 has been brought to a resolution resulting in the Jefferson Davis County School District repaying over $1 million following the misuse of sixteenth section land funds by the District.

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JACKSON- State Auditor Stacey Pickering announced today that Tracy Laird, former employee at Jones County Junior College, was indicted by the Grand Jury of Jones County for embezzlement.

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JACKSON- Leading up to the four-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Louis Allen Stiglet and Todd Northrop each entered a guilty plea in cases relating to Hurricane Katrina fraud.

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JACKSON- Prime recipients of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds will have the opportunity to attend five training sessions designed to educate on the reporting requirements to the federal government under Section 1512 of the Act.

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JACKSON- On Monday, special agents with the State Auditor’s Office arrested Dennis Keith Pierce, a co-conspirator in the Mississippi Department of Transportation corruption ring that netted seven arrests last week.

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JACKSON- On Wednesday, August 12, investigators with the State Auditor’s Office arrested Joseph C. Gallagher and Ricky Saxton in the Mississippi Department of Transportation corruption ring that resulted in five arrests on Tuesday, August 11.

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JACKSON- Five employees of the Mississippi Department of Transportation were arrested Tuesday morning following an investigation by the State Auditor’s Office that began in 2007.

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