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Show Mllri JBT1S smittinicc!l tup to Tk The city has received a check for $14,536 from the bonding company to satisfy their liability. Civil action is still pending to recover the rest of the missing funds, the cost of the special audit, and attorney's fees. City Attorney Waddingham presented pre-sented a bill for $1400 for his services in the matter to date. ' Nadine Jones, former Mil-ford Mil-ford City Recorder, was sentenced sen-tenced not to exceed five years in the Utah State Penitentiary, Pen-itentiary, at about noon Monday, Mon-day, June 19th, in Judge Burns District Court in Beaver. In delivering the sentence, Judge Burns said, "There is too much money involved, over too long a period of time." 1 The sentencing, which had been scheduled for 10 a.m. ; was delayed because Mrs. Jones' attorney, Louis Ter-vort, Ter-vort, was late. Judge Burns moved the case to the end of the days docket. After short statements from Tervort andMrs. Jones arguing for probation and a statement by prosecutor, County Attorney John Chris - tensen, Judge Burns deliver - ed the sentence. No fine was levied. Mrs. Jones was held in the Beaver County jail overnight, over-night, and the Sheriff delivered deliv-ered her to the state penitentiary peni-tentiary Tuesday to begin the sentence. County Attorney Christen -sen said it was possible that she could become eligible for parole in six months to a year. Mrs. Jones plead guilty to one count of misuse of pubic pub-ic funds on May 16th, for $348.00. She had been charged charg-ed with two counts, but the second count was dropped when she plead guilty. Both counts, felonys in the third , degree, carried a possible fine of $5,000.00 and up to five years incarceration. Mrs. Jones was suspended as city recorder on October 1st, 1978, after the bi-annual audit showed a discrepancy discre-pancy in the city accounts. A more detailed audit then showed a loss of $36,404 over a period from 1969 through August 1977. The audit was conducted by Hancey, Waters and Jones of Ogden, Utah. They explained the card file and receipt system had made it possible for the loss to be overlooked during the spot checks in the bi-annual audit. When the discrepancy was discovered they then . checked each account against receipts and deposits to turn up the missing $36,404.00. They said, however, that missing receipts, etc. made it impossible to be sure if all missing funds are accounted account-ed for. The special audit cost nearly $15,000.00. The auditors recommended recommend-ed a new bookeeping system, which has been partially put into operation, and the transition trans-ition will be completed with the audit starting in July. |