An Interest In:
Web News this Week
- March 2, 2024
- March 1, 2024
- February 29, 2024
- February 28, 2024
- February 27, 2024
- February 26, 2024
- February 25, 2024
March 20, 2018 05:39 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/sWupYmxDKjw/working-as-intended.html
Alabama Sheriff legally appropriated $750K from prison meal budgets to build himself a beach house, locked up his whistleblowing gardener
Etowah, Alabama County Sheriff Todd Entrekin took advantage of a Great-Depression-era rule that lets the sheriff pocket any "excess" from the budget for prisoner meals (provided he makes up any shortfall from his own finances) and used $750,000 that had been allocated to feed prisoners to build himself a luxury beach house. When his gardener tipped off a Birmingham News reporter, the gardener was locked up in the Sheriff's jail on mysterious drug charges. (more…)
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/sWupYmxDKjw/working-as-intended.html
Share this article:
Tweet
View Full Article