Delinquent tax money missing from Beaufort County treasurer’s office
Delinquent tax money missing from county treasurer’s office
Money collected by Beaufort County at the October delinquent property tax sale has gone missing from the treasurer’s office, Joy Logan, county treasurer, announced this week. She said the sheriff’s office is investigating. She declined to state the amount of funds in question or what happened to the money because of confidentiality due to the invesigation.
This is the second time in recent months that money has disappeared from county accounts. In July the clerk of court, Elizabeth Smith, was indicted and resigned after being accused of embezzling $33,283.52 from the court’s accounts, allegedly to pay for life insurance policies on members of her family and the costs of improvements to her family’s house at Pawleys Island SC.
- Elizabeth Smith arrested, jailed, mug shot, released on bond
- Indicted clerk of court arraigned, booking at jail today, $25,000 bond set
- Husband of indicted clerk of court removed as drug judge
- Governor Mark Sanford appoints Jerri Ann Roseneau as Beaufort County clerk of court to replace indicted clerk
- Letter to the editor: Elizabeth Smith news is “very depressing”
- Beaufort County Clerk of Court Elizabeth Smith accused of embezzlement
- Click here to read the indictments.
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Related posts:
- Former Clerk of Court Elizabeth Smith arrested, incarcerated at Beaufort County Detention Center, released on bond
- Former Clerk of Court Elizabeth Smith pleads not guilty to embezzlement charges, to be booked at detention center today
- SC Attorney General confirms Jerri Ann Roseneau as Beaufort County clerk of court until 2012 general election
- Beaufort County Clerk of Court Elizabeth Smith accused of embezzlement
- V. Manning Smith removed as Drug Court judge
