Major, 2 others arrested on fraud fees hooked up to instructional consulting trade, officers say
BILOXI, Omit. (WLOX/Grey Information) – New main points launched Thursday attach a Biloxi important and two different ladies to what the State Auditor’s Place of work is looking a fraudulent schooling consulting trade.
Former Coffeeville College District Superintendent Vivian Robinson and co-conspirators Melissa Nance and Tammy Briggs had been arrested on fees of fraudulent statements/representations, conspiracy and acquiring an object of worth with intent to defraud. Briggs is from Gulfport, and Nance is recently the important at Nichols Basic College in Biloxi. Since Wednesday’s arrest, she has been put on administrative depart.
The 3 ladies are accused of constructing a trade for tutorial consulting. Investigators stated Robinson licensed bills to the fraudulent trade whilst minimum products and services had been carried out with the intention to seem as a authentic corporate. The 3 are accused of operating in combination to attract just about $45,000 from the Coffeeville College District.
The scheme used to be found out all the way through an audit performed via the Place of work of the State Auditor’s Compliance Audit Department.
“For the second one time in a month, we’ve known cash that are meant to have benefited public college scholars that used to be misspent,” stated Auditor Shad White. “We can paintings with prosecutors on this case to offer protection to the pursuits of the ones scholars and the taxpayers.”
Upon their arrest, the defendants had been served with call for letters appearing they owe $84,171.06 again to taxpayers. The volume comprises passion and investigative bills.
Nance and Briggs had been being held on the Harrison County Grownup Detention Heart for government in Yalobusha County.
When requested for remark about Nance’s arrest, Biloxi College District spokeswoman Jennifer Pyron stated, “Mrs. Nance is a long-time worker and important with a very good document of luck within the Biloxi Public College District. As we look forward to the result of those allegations, we can proceed to cooperate absolutely with the State Auditor’s Place of work.”
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