Waste District Funds Missing
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
Following an audit by the State Board of Accounts, approximately $27,000 was found missing from the Kosciusko County Solid Waste District's accounts in 1999 and 2000.
The financial review is regularly scheduled once every two years, according to district chairman Joe Thallemer.
At that time and since her appointment as director in September 1997, Marsha Eikenberry also served as the district's controller.
State Board of Accounts representatives met with KCSWD directors and Kosciusko County commissioners Avis Gunter and Ron Truex, county councilman Maurice Beer, Winona Lake councilman Rolly Ortega and Warsaw city councilman Thallemer Wednesday in executive session an hour prior to the regular meeting.
The accountants' preliminary findings reportedly show that unauthorized cashed checks, misuse of district property and unauthorized vacation days added to the district's loss.
On first study no one other than Eikenberry is implicated in the theft.
Thallemer said following a review, the final report will be published in about six weeks and forwarded to the State Attorney General, whose office will initiate civil charges.
Criminal charges could be filed at the county level.
The final report should be available in about six weeks. [[In-content Ad]]
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Following an audit by the State Board of Accounts, approximately $27,000 was found missing from the Kosciusko County Solid Waste District's accounts in 1999 and 2000.
The financial review is regularly scheduled once every two years, according to district chairman Joe Thallemer.
At that time and since her appointment as director in September 1997, Marsha Eikenberry also served as the district's controller.
State Board of Accounts representatives met with KCSWD directors and Kosciusko County commissioners Avis Gunter and Ron Truex, county councilman Maurice Beer, Winona Lake councilman Rolly Ortega and Warsaw city councilman Thallemer Wednesday in executive session an hour prior to the regular meeting.
The accountants' preliminary findings reportedly show that unauthorized cashed checks, misuse of district property and unauthorized vacation days added to the district's loss.
On first study no one other than Eikenberry is implicated in the theft.
Thallemer said following a review, the final report will be published in about six weeks and forwarded to the State Attorney General, whose office will initiate civil charges.
Criminal charges could be filed at the county level.
The final report should be available in about six weeks. [[In-content Ad]]