JACKSON- Following an investigation by State Auditor Stacey Pickering’s Office, Samantha Boutwell was indicted on the charge of embezzlement over $500.

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JACKSON- State Auditor Stacey Pickering announced that Seleta Howell, former accounts receivable specialist with Northeast Mississippi Community College, has been indicted on five counts of embezzlement.

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JACKSON- State Auditor Stacey Pickering announced today that Natalie Brooke Ward, former deputy Chancery Clerk in Jones County, has been indicted on two counts, embezzlement by a public employee and alteration of record, following an investigation into the missing funds from the Jones County Land Redemption account.

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JACKSON- Richard Lee Knight, Preston Ladnier Saucier, Jacob Wayne Innabinit, Peter Howard and Robert Smith were arrested on charges related to Katrina fraud.

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JACKSON- Karen Smith and Carolyn L. Coates, former employees of public entities in Yazoo County, have been arrested following a grand jury indictment for embezzlement of $500 or more.

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JACKSON- Following an investigation by the State Auditor’s Hurricane Katrina Fraud Prevention and Detection Unit, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Small Business Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Roger and Annette L. Williams, of Houston, TX, were indicted on 12 counts relating to Hurricane Katrina Fraud; pled guilty to four counts; and were sentenced on Tuesday in federal court.

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JACKSON- Deputies with the Smith County Sheriff’s Office served Telicha Nobles on charges of embezzlement. Investigators with the State Auditor’s Office worked the case involving embezzled funds from February 2006 – August 2007.

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JACKSON- Following a thorough investigation into missing funds at the Tate County School District, State Auditor Stacey Pickering has announced that he is returning over $30,000 to the District following the sentencing of Deborah Carol Shaw, 40, of Senatobia to 10 years in the Mississippi Department of Corrections, with four years suspended with six years to serve.

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JACKSON- State Auditor Stacey Pickering announced that former Tishomingo County employee Norma Lomenick was indicted by the Grand Jury on five counts of embezzlement earlier this month.

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JACKSON- Jim M Greenlee, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, Frederick T. Brink, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in Mississippi, and Stacey Pickering, Mississippi State Auditor announced that:

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