Good grief, people. This is just nuts. In addition to the criminal charges, the AG just filed a lawsuit based upon the State Board of Accounts investigation. For your reading pleasure...or disgust, I have attached the report. Skip the mumbo-jumbo and go right to the itemized list of unauthorized/fraudulent charges.
It's not the greed and fraud that gets me. I mean, it's bad, but nothing new in the history of the world. What gets me is the complete lack of any attempt to cover up anything or launder anything. Not even a weak attempt to create a fake contractor or two and then pay them....nope- they just wantonly used the credit cards, bought things "for the EMS" and then sold them and kept the proceeds- having, for instance, the guy who bought a tractor owned by the EMS write a personal check to Jamey Noel for $31k. Stuff that easily traceable...and even more easily traceable.
No one took issue with the EMS buying a C8 Vette for almost $80k? I mean, we all want a better response time, but....
It's not the greed and fraud that gets me. I mean, it's bad, but nothing new in the history of the world. What gets me is the complete lack of any attempt to cover up anything or launder anything. Not even a weak attempt to create a fake contractor or two and then pay them....nope- they just wantonly used the credit cards, bought things "for the EMS" and then sold them and kept the proceeds- having, for instance, the guy who bought a tractor owned by the EMS write a personal check to Jamey Noel for $31k. Stuff that easily traceable...and even more easily traceable.
No one took issue with the EMS buying a C8 Vette for almost $80k? I mean, we all want a better response time, but....
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