Lanett mayor arrested on 3 charges of using office for personal gain Lanett Mayor Kyle McCoy indicted on felony ethics violations (Source: Chambers County Sheriff s Office) By WSFA Staff | February 16, 2021 at 11:57 AM CST - Updated February 16 at 6:16 PM
CHAMBERS COUNTY, Ala. (WSFA) - An east Alabama mayor has been arrested and charged with three felony counts of using his office for personal gain, according to Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshalâs office.
Lanett Mayor Jonathon Kyle McCoy turned himself in at the Chambers County Jail Tuesday morning where he was processed and bond was set at $30,000.
The attorney generalâs office said McCoy, 56, was arrested after a Chambers County grand jury returned with an indictment against him last Thursday.
‘He was a hero’: Slain Kimberly Police Officer Nick O’Rear honored on first anniversary of his death
Updated Feb 05, 2021;
It was one year ago today that Kimberly Police Officer Nick O’Rear died after he was shot in the line of duty on Interstate 65.
Family, friends and coworkers gathered Friday in his memory to mark the solemn anniversary, and to see, for the first time, interstate signs that will be placed in his honor on the stretch of roadway where he was killed.
The Officer Nick O’Rear Memorial Highway is on I-65 between mile markers 280 and 281. The signs, which will be placed northbound and southbound, were unveiled by State Rep. Allen Treadaway, State Sen. Shay Shelnutt and Kimberly Mayor Bob Ellerbrook at a ceremony held at the Kimberly Fire Station.
Former Birmingham psychologist gets federal prison, $1.5 million restitution in Medicaid fraud case
Updated Jan 28, 2021;
A former Birmingham psychologist has been sentenced after defrauding the Alabama Medicaid Agency of at least $1.5 million by filing false claims for counseling services that were not provided.
Sharon D. Waltz, 51, pleaded guilty and was sentenced Thursday to three years in federal prison. She was also ordered to pay $1.5 million in restitution, according to a joint statement by Northern District of Alabama U.S. Attorney Prim Escalona, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and Department of Health and Human Services -Office of Inspector General Special Agent Derrick L. Jackson.
Three Breonna Taylor grand jurors among petitioners seeking to impeach Kentucky attorney general
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Three former grand jurors are among the “concerned Kentucky citizens” petitioning the Kentucky Legislature to impeach state Attorney General Daniel Cameron, according to Kevin Glogower, one of the attorneys representing the petitioners.
The citizens filed a petition Friday seeking the impeachment of Cameron on charges of “breach of public trust and failure to comply with duties for misrepresenting to the nation the findings of the Grand Jury” and “abuse of office and breach of duties of professional responsibility and ethics,” both of which are connected to the lack of charges filed against the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department officers implicated in the death of Breonna Taylor in September.
By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office abruptly scrubbed her state website shortly after Jan. 6 to remove mention that she was a director of a conservative dark money group tied to the infamous insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
The group is the Rule of Law Defense Fund, an arm of the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), whose “mission is electing Republicans to the Office of State Attorney General” across the country. And as a 501(c)(4) organization, the fund doesn’t have to tell anyone – not even the Internal Revenue Service – who gives them money, an opaque status conferred on 501(c)(4)s by the Trump Administration.