| ||||||||||
 
Dr. Ronald P. Rogers CHIROPRACTOR Support for your body's natural healing capabilities 270-384-5554 Click here for details 
  
Columbia Gas Dept. GAS LEAK or GAS SMELL Contact Numbers 24 hrs/ 365 days 270-384-2006 or 9-1-1 Call before you dig 
Visit ColumbiaMagazine's Directory of Churches Addresses, times, phone numbers and more for churches in Adair County Find Great Stuff in ColumbiaMagazine's Classified Ads Antiques, Help Wanted, Autos, Real Estate, Legal Notices, More... 
|
AG Beshear secures guilty plea from ex-Lee County Circuit Clerk Emma Adams ordered to repay stolen funds; sentencing set for April 1 Click on headline for complete story By Terry Sebastin, Crystal Staley News from Attorney General Andy Beshear's Communications Office FRANKFORT, KY. (Fri 19 Feb 2016) - Today Attorney General Andy Beshear announced that Emma Adams, former Lee County Circuit Clerk, pled guilty to abuse of public trust. "Kentuckians have a right to expect that elected officials follow the law," Beshear said. "When leaders abuse their office and break the public's trust, our office is here to hold them accountable." Adams unlawfully obtained more than $100,000 in public money or property from funds that were administered through the Administrative Offices of the Court (AOC). With assistance from AOC auditors, the Office of the Attorney General's Department of Criminal Investigations began investigating Adams. The investigation traced and verified a total of $334,845.44 in missing state funds from 2006 until mid-year 2015. Nearly, $78,738.97 of the missing funds were from circuit civil filing fees, which was administered solely by Adams. The remaining $256,106.47 was traced to missing bank deposits. Those funds represent money the circuit clerks are required to take in and hold in trust on behalf of others such as bail bonds and restitution payments. The Attorney General's Special Prosecutions Unit prosecuted the case. Adams admitted to taking this money for her own personal use and pled guilty to abuse of public trust, a class D felony. She was ordered to pay $334,845.44 in restitution. Formal sentencing is expected to take place on April 1, 2016 at 9 a.m. in Franklin Circuit Court. "I want to thank the AOC auditors and the members of my Department of Criminal Investigations and Special Prosecutions Unit for handling this case," Beshear said. This story was posted on 2016-02-20 12:06:29
Printable: this page is now automatically formatted for printing.
Have comments or corrections for this story? Use our contact form and let us know. More articles from topic Kentucky:
Rodney Ballard named new Kentucky Corrections Commissioner Former soldier guilty of illegal export of defense article Deadline for KY F&W game warden postions is 14 Feb 2016 District 3 Crews Complete Snow and Ice Operations State tax refunds will take longer in 2016 Floyd Co. man sentenced for receipt of child pornography Supreme Court of Kentucky to hear arguments Feb. 11-12 Former Henderson, KY manager sentenced for embezzlement KY Retirement Systems officials like Governor's budget proposal Andy Beshear's statement on providing $17.5 million for budget View even more articles in topic Kentucky |
 
115 Jamestown St. Columbia, KY. 270-384-2496 
  
   
 Provided by the Adair Co Fiscal Court and the Adair Co. Emergency Mgt. Agency 
|
||||||||
|
| ||||||||||
|
Quick Links to Popular Features
Looking for a story or picture? Try our Photo Archive or our Stories Archive for all the information that's appeared on ColumbiaMagazine.com. | ||||||||||
|
Contact us: Columbia Magazine and columbiamagazine.com are published by Linda Waggener and Pen Waggener, PO Box 906, Columbia, KY 42728. Please use our contact page, or send questions about technical issues with this site to webmaster@columbiamagazine.com. All logos and trademarks used on this site are property of their respective owners. All comments remain the property and responsibility of their posters, all articles and photos remain the property of their creators, and all the rest is copyright 1995-Present by Columbia Magazine. Privacy policy: use of this site requires no sharing of information. Voluntarily shared information may be published and made available to the public on this site and/or stored electronically. Anonymous submissions will be subject to additional verification. Cookies are not required to use our site. However, if you have cookies enabled in your web browser, some of our advertisers may use cookies for interest-based advertising across multiple domains. For more information about third-party advertising, visit the NAI web privacy site.
| ||||||||||
