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Print exclusive: Salt Rock customers asked to reissue missing checks
450 customers of the Salt Rock Sewer Public Service District are faced with letters demanding they write their checks once again.
The Public Service District recorded many of the customers’ check numbers and amounts, but the actual payments were never deposited into the district’s bank account between May 2006 and December 2007.
The total loss tallied $95,286.14 – $27,807.19 cash and $67,478.95 in checks.
Investigators allege embezzlement and a defense attorney points to shoddy bookkeeping. That argument continues two years later, as the Public Service District copes with a critical cash flow problem.
Read more about this story in Sunday's print edition of The Herald-Dispatch.
