Shelby Co. (ECWd) - We have finally confirmed the Sheriff's Office destroyed key records while in the middle of a payroll audit and criminal investigation. After numerous requests in an attempt to confirm if records were in fact actually destroyed, the last response today confirms it. "The...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - As reported in this article, I asked for specific records that they received permission to destroy. The goal was to determine if they actually were destroyed or not. The history of this issue is covered in several articles that can be read...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - We first exposed the questionable record destruction requests in this article. We stated we were reaching out to the Secretary of State Local Records commission regarding possible improper destruction of records and now have the Commission's response to our inquiry. Media Questions raised...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - The Shelby County board held a special meeting for the purpose of receiving the forensic audit report of the Sheriff's office payroll. As part of that presentation, the auditor spoke about destroyed records, which we covered in this article. After hearing the auditor...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - We first covered the Shelby County forensic audit results in this article. It didn't take long for people to attempt to spin the information and actually post false claims. While there is plenty of information to share which has yet to be...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - The Shelby County forensic auditor provided a very condensed summary of his findings, which did not include thousands of pages of records. As we have said for years, many times it's not what we are told or what records are provided that...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - The forensic audit of the Shelby County Sheriff's office exposed one particular item that jumped out at us. According to the audit, page 5, the Sheriff's office paid out on 11,808 hours that were never actually worked during the audit period of...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - The Shelby County Board held a special meeting tonight for the presentation of the forensic audit of the County Sheriff's office payroll from 2015 to 2020. Our investigation into payroll fraud began clear back in 2018 and the volume of malfeasance we had...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - The Shelby County Petition Election Board heard the continued cases against Lynn Williams and Mitchell Esslinger who were both represented by Coles County Attorney Todd Reardon. The first hearing can be viewed at this link which is the article covering that hearing. Lynn...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - This is Part X of the exposure of misrepresentations and misinformation provided by Shelby County State's Attorney Nichole Kronke during her oral testimony in support of legislation affecting every county in the state. We urge everyone to read Part I at this...
