Public Corruption Probe Advances
Police Warrants Outline Alleged County Con Job
By Gil Brady, 9-11-07
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TETON COUNTY, Wyo. – Police continue to investigate an elaborate larceny and embezzling scheme involving the alleged over-charging of local vehicle buyers for their transfers of title and a “slush fund” kept in the desk drawer of a suspected employee of the Teton County clerk’s office.
“I was shocked to learn that a trusted employee was suspected of embezzling funds,” County Clerk Sherry Daigle said in an official press release Friday.
Her face flushed behind her desk, Daigle said late Friday that she had fired a county worker earlier that day. Due to the ongoing corruption probe, however, Daigle declined to identify the terminated employee.
Among items seized and inventoried in a search warrant returned to 9th Circuit Court Monday: 11 checks payable to the Teton County Clerk’s Office and four $20 bills “located in an open plain white envelope with stickers on the exterior, known as the ‘overflow slush fund’.”
Earlier this month, detectives reported targeting a local government employee who they allege “was over charging customers and converting the fraudulently gained funds into (their) personal use.”
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*This is not the first time in recent history that scandal and well-founded allegations of graft, patronage, cronyism and public corruption have rocked the halls of Teton County. (-Ed)
Click here, here, & here to read 3 original Cowboy Picayune-Sunny Times investigative reports going back to last summer.
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