Saturday, January 24, 2009
Sheriff, county attorney to meet with feds to discuss resumption of seized asset sharing.
As you all know, the feds suspended the county's eligibility to share in seized assets as a result of the BOC chair's understandable unwillingness to sign off on Bill Smith's patently illegal expenditures from the funds. Next week, Sheriff Gregory, accompanied by County Attorney, Brent green, will travel to Savannah to meet with the feds. They will plead their case that there is a new sheriff in town who can not undo the malfeasance of EX- sheriff Bill Smith, but can assure them of strict compliance with the letter of the law going forward. I'm sure that every sane, rational, Camdenian will join me in wishing them every success in this endeavor.
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Hopefully the feds will reinstate the county so that Sheriff Gregory can put the funds to good use for cars and other needed things for our hard working law deputies.
Good luck Sheriff Gregory and Mr. Green.
Considering the way the former Sheriff left things, I think they have there work cut out for them. You know the old saying (Paying for the sins of others). I wish them well though.
The BOC should have to go and get their hands slapped for signing off on all of the expenditures made throughout those many years. This ia a good example of waste due to negligence, stupidity and good old boy politics. The BOC could have refused to sign off on Sheriff Smith's expenditures that were obviously questionable. Then the Feds, if they cared to do their job, could have audited those expenditures and put a stop to some of the wasteful spending. I'm sure that Sheriff Gregory is knowledgable enough to state his case to the Feds and hopefully get the County reinstated to the Shared Assets Funding. Not so sure that he even needs Green who should have been watching and advising the BOC over the years. It seems none of the BOC's nor their staff had sense enough to read the rules and regulations handed down by the Feds concerning The Shared Assets Program.
I wish them LUCK. I believe that Tommy can assure the Feds that everything will be done correctly under his control.
Poor Tommy!! So many mistakes he has to correct before he can even get started. I wish him all the luck in the world.
The Chairman who signed off on all those illegal expenditures over the years is NOW the Chairman AGAIN. Only in Camden County....
Amen.
What about all those Chairmen who signed off on the illegal expenditures other than the current Chairman. There have been many different Chairmen in the past 23 years and obviously they all signed off on expenditures for each year. Berry was Chairman in the last 8 years, Rhodes, and I think Herrin and of course Rainer. Just think how many there were in the 15 years prior to that. Obviously none of these Chairman looked at what they were signing and what the ramifications of those signings meant.
If it wasn't for that ass Rick Rogers we wouldn't have this problem.
That is, of course, a patently absurd assertion.
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