BROOKSVILLE, Miss.- State Auditor Stacey Pickering presented a check for $50,000 to Mayor Tammie Holmes, Town of Brooksville, today during a press conference in Brooksville.
Auditor Pickering returns $50,000 to the town of Brooksville. Brooksville Mayor Tammie Holmes received the check on behalf of the town.
The State Auditor’s Office’s investigation discovered that Alvina Deloach embezzled $60, 873 from the Town of Brooksville in Noxubee County. Deloach pled guilty to embezzlement and was sentenced to two years of house arrest in March 2009.
Deloach served as the deputy town clerk in Brooksville from September 1998 to June 2001 and served as the town clerk from June 2001 to June 2005. She was terminated from the position in June 2005 by the Brooksville Board of Alderman.
“Our investigative team did an outstanding job investigating this case and holding Alvina Deloach responsible for her actions,” said State Auditor Stacey Pickering. “The $50,000 presented to Mayor Holmes today is the amount we were able to recover from Deloach’s bond, and I am pleased to be bringing it back to the Town of Brooksville. Since taking office, we have been successful in recovering and returning over $4.2 million to local governments across the state. That is a victory for our state, and we continue to work diligently on behalf of the taxpayers in Noxubee County and across Mississippi to ensure that we recover the funds embezzled from the local coffers.”
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