RANKIN COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) - The former vice president of Human Resources at the Mississippi Lottery Corporation (MLC) pled guilty to embezzlement. State Auditor Shad White said Hope Bishop was arrested in November 2023. Bishop is accused of giving herself unauthorized raises. The MLC staff discovered Bishop’s embezzlement and reported it to the State Auditor’s office [.]
BRANDON, Miss. (WJTV) - Special Agents from the State Auditor's Office arrested two women in Rankin County on separate embezzlement cases. The suspects are Hope Bishop, the former Vice President of Human Resources at the Mississippi Lottery Corporation (MLC), and Brittney Phillips, a former clerk at the Rankin County Tax Collector’s Office. According to State [.]