Former Alabama sheriff pocketed $1.5 million meant to feed ICE detainees
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https://theweek.com/speedreads/815161/alabama-sheriff-personally-kept-15-million-that-supposed-feed-ice-detainees
Sheriff Todd Entrekin of Etowah County, Alabama, lost his re-election bid this year after he was found to have personally pocketed $750,000 allotted for feeding inmates in county
lockup and using it to buy himself a beach house.
Ethical questions aside, Entrekin's taking was legal under Alabama law — but a further $1.5 million he took home from funds for feeding federal immigration detainees may not be.
The Etowah County Detention Center has a contract with the federal government to house several hundred undocumented immigrants awaiting adjudication. With that contract comes
federal funding from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to feed the detainees, AL.com reports Entrekin has treated state and municipal funds the same: Any surplus is split
50/50 between the county's general fund and the sheriff himself, so a $3 million surplus gave Entrekin a $1.5 million bonus.
As Entrekin protested when the beach house story broke, that accounting is legal in Alabama. AL.com's report notes "multiple Alabama state attorneys general over the past decade
[have agreed] sheriffs can in fact pocket funds allocated by the state to feed inmates that are not used for that purpose." But federal funds are likely a different story.
"There's pretty much no way that the federal government is okay with this," George Washington University law professor Randall Eliason told AL.com.
"Regardless of what he argues about the Alabama law, if it comes to light that he's taking these federal funds that are supposed to be used to feed and house federal prisoners, and
instead is putting [hundreds of thousands of] dollars in his pocket, that would be of great interest to federal prosecutors."
I imagine he sleeps just fine, the fucker
Lock him up.
A month for every dollar.
"multiple Alabama state attorneys general over the past decade [have agreed] sheriffs can in fact pocket funds allocated by the state to feed inmates that are not used for that purpose.
How the fuck can anyone think our justice system is fine when things like this are even passed as acceptable for a second
It's state law, states can make laws about whatever the fuck they want and Alabama has a lot of laws from the Jim Crow era or earlier. Alabama's governor wants to end the ability for sheriffs to pocket funds like
that tho.
"They're saving money and operating under budget, it is only fair they are rewarded!"
Hah, I knew it was Etowah before opening the thread. My boss and I were talking about this jackass a few months ago. He's not the only one who has been doing this. Some have gotten in to trouble, many have not.
Roy Moore and this guy, why is Etowah county so bad
lmao of course it was Sessions
My family hails from there and we're the only ones that aren't completely insane. I think there's something in the air
Legalized corruption is fucking weird. What kind of person decides putting tax money in your bank account is perfectly fine?
Also impressive is finding a $750,000 beach house, unless he had other funds available.
Absolutely disgusting.
Yeah but federal is not going to take this lightly i'm sure as sugar that sheriff is going to get fucked six ways from sunday about pocketing federal funds.
Few people come off as douchy as those who hang their hands from vests like that guy in the pic.
Nah, make him pay it off.
Out of pocket.
At minimum wage.
America, the country that shouldn't logically work yet still somehow manages to drag it's bloated carcass across the world.
Too big to fail, in country form. We can afford to do whatever we want because we're so important to the world. When we fuck up we get a bailout
only in alabama would embezzlement be perfectly legal if its at the expense of voiceless people. Some fiscal conservatives.
Politicians.
Vests get hot, sometimes it feels good to let it breathe a little bit.
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