JPD Reported to be Probing County
Allegations of $$$Graft$$$ Sparks Investigation
By GIL BRADY
The Cowboy Picayune-Sunny Times
Filed 9.07. 07
JACKSON, Wyo. (CT) – Police confirmed Friday they're investigating an alleged embezzling scam involving the county office of “lien and title”.
“I was shocked to learn that a trusted employee was suspected of embezzling funds,” Teton County Clerk Sherry Daigle said in an official press release Friday.
Jackson detectives reported targeting a local government employee who “was (allegedly) over charging customers and converting the fraudulently gained funds into her personal use.”
Her face flushed behind her desk, Daigle said late Friday that a county employee had been fired earlier today. Due to the ongoing corruption probe, however, she declined to identify that person. But an official close to the investigation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said they believed the scandal involved only one county worker.
"XTRA, XTRA!!!" This is not the first time in recent history that scandal and well-founded allegations of graft, patronage and corruption have rocked the halls of Teton County. (-Ed)
posted by Cowboy Times at 2:07 PM
2 Comments:
Why hasn't anyone - including you - released the name of the public employee that has been fired?
Release the name.
jhwygirl,
Speaking for myself, but guessing what everyone else is thinking, there's a sort of parlor game going on about who the suspected/fired employee is.
From a journalistic POV, because no charges have yet been filed, it would be both unfair and potentially libelous to print any speculative name in connection with or in context of this story until charges are filed, if ever they are.
However, hopefully I and other news sources have made clear that at present it appears only one person is involved.
Thanks for your question.
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