JACKSON- State Auditor Stacey Pickering announced today that Gail Williams, former Municipal Court Clerk for the Town of Prentiss, pled guilty on Monday to embezzling $89,620.27.

Williams, 59, was sentenced to five years with two years to be served under house arrest and three years suspended. She was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $79,620.27, which is $10,000 less than owed. OSA previously issued and collected on a demand for $10,000 from her bonding company.

In her position, Williams accepted cash payments for court fines and did not record the payments on the monthly reports submitted to the Town Clerk.

“Over a period of several years, Ms. Williams embezzled taxpayer money from the town of Prentiss,” Auditor Pickering said. “I am pleased that she will have to pay back to the citizens of Prentiss the money that she stole.”

Williams was employed by the town for 26 years prior to her resignation.

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