Grand jury clears Ellerby

How hard is this case to prove? Who signed off on the pay increase? From whose computer was the transaction processed? Someone obviously had enough evidence to terminate her employment. Barnesville is only as strong as it's weakest link and to-date that is Richard Milam. What a loser! The only thing that we, as a town, can gain from this is that the weakling plans not to seek office next term. With his, obviously weak decisions and PLEA deals, surely he would not want to see how much disrespect he has earned in these pitiful last two years.

I truly do not know how you sleep at night, Milam. The deputies round them up and you set them free. You are truly a pitiful excuse for a DA. Are you insane? It has really reached that point.

Much is wrong here. Start with the DA and work down.

Richard (Panty Waist) Milam.

Just two more years, by then you will be residing on Milam Street in Richardville. He has enough payoff money to purchase Barnesville. He had that much before his Cha-Ching transactions today.

You need to understand something. Somebody, somewhere did something illegal. If it AIN'T Gretchen then she needs to put the right person on the chopping block.

Ellerby has not provided restitution plan
Posted by
Walter Geiger
in News
Wednesday, September 15. 2010
Comments (20)
Gretchen Ellerby, the former Lamar County commission office manager, payroll clerk and human resources director, has yet to make restitution for her alleged $5,000 a year unapproved pay raise.

During a fire fee meeting last week, commissioners called a closed session to discuss personnel and litigation. Asked about the outcome of the meeting, county manager Wayne Patterson said he could make no comment on what occurred in the session.

“I can tell you a restitution plan has not been received in our office,” Patterson said. Ellerby had until Sept. 3, to arrange repayment of some $8,000 in unearned income that resulted from her unauthorized raise. The overpayments date back to February.

Somebody's job needs to be on the chopping block. I wish someone who knows real facts in these two cases would sign on as anonymous and "LET IT ROLL."

You believe anything that makes you sleep at night. If you think games cannot be played, look both ways before you cross the street and don't suck your thumb in class.

Why did Worthy(less) get to float through an indictment and get a second opinion...which he obviously LOVED?

WHY?

I have not mentioned Sheriff Waller.


Yet.

M-I-L-A-M.

Going to?
DOWN
DOWN
DOWN
DOWN
WAY DOWN.

Hey, ye of poor intellect...No way in hell did a county employee get terminated from their job without the real facts being known. It just does not happen. Before this lady would receive this public humiliation, she would have named her accomplice. However...there is a itty, bitty, microscopic, tiny, almost negligent, almost impossible chance that you are right. We can fix that. I always make apologies when I screw up. This would mean that I owe Gretchen a big apology and probably a nice gift.

Please ask her if she is willing to take a polygraph test at the next commissioner's meeting, from an out of Barnesville source, of coarse. I will pay for the test.

And bring her a nice gift.

I am sure you are right. Let me measure:

Innocent Mistakes.....Intentional Illegal Acts


Now, see what you done. My Scale of Justice fell off the right side of my Laboratory Desk and busted. I will send you the bill.

From Anonymous, regarding Mrs. Ellerby's case.

"Did it ever occur to anyone that perhaps she is innocent? Jay and the Board, and their predecessors could be the ones who need investigating for all their covert dealings. Still trying to run Lamar County like it was the 1950's. I highly dy, the Board of Commissioners couldn't produce the evidence. Perhaps none existed."

You may be right. Let me think a second. Based on facts:

Mrs. Ellerby was asked to establish a payback plan for the stolen money in the amount of $8000.

She is most likely a salaried employee. Probably paid twice a month. It doesn't matter either way. The frequency and amounts after calculation will total approximately $8000.

So, assuming that she would be asked to pay back $8000, that would be the increase only "accepted" by Mrs. Ellerby. Because she was not terminated until $8ooo was taken illegally.
Therefore her check in the original amount would not have been questioned.

Therefore, she accepted and cashed 38 checks that were overstated by $210. Or less checks at a larger amount. Or one check overstated by $8000. WHY?

What would an honest person have done when they seen that their check was incorrect? They would go to "someone" and report the error. I would. Would you? Honesty in the workplace. Anything less is unacceptable by taxpayers.

Something is wrong here folks. Don't be swindled by a cover up. If by some miracle, Mrs. Ellerby did take the money unknowingly, someone else needs to be fired. A computer transaction or a document triggered the pay increase.

Taxpaying citizens deserve to know all the facts and we must ask these questions of the commissioners.

When did Mrs. Ellerby first receive the inflated amount in her check? Who keyed the transaction? Was it approved? If so, who approved it? How many checks were cashed that were overstated? Who noticed and reported the fraudulent increase? Was this noticed due to Walter's published reports of the salary of county employees? Were all other employees checks verified to assure tax payers that this is an isolated incident? Who verified this? Only an established legal accounting firm can make this verification. What was the name of the firm? Why was this case significant enough to pursue in court but negligible enough to be cleared by the Grand Jury?

You are the taxpayers, this is your money.

Something very underhanded happened in this case. It can be tracked. It should be tracked.
Someone said in a blog that the county should be audited. That is an intelligent person.

DEMAND IT. You may get a tax refund. The numbers are open records. More than Mrs. Ellerby are guilty here. Nothing else explains the lack of a TRUE BILL, nothing.

If she does not resume her previous position, ask yourself, How much more of my tax money did I sacrifice to pay for the COVER-UP?

Do not ask Mrs. Ellerby. You will not get true facts. She has definitely signed a confidentiality agreement.

How much does the county owe their citizens of their abused tax money?

Use simple logic. Get answers. You will be surprised.

Her file can be subpoenaed, as well as every other county employee. I guarantee you, the investigation will pay for itself.

And you may get a rebate of your own money? Wouldn't that be nice?

You are welcome.

Ten minutes after this is posted...SOMEBODY is shredding documents. If they were legally filed in the first place.

Have fun, take your time and enjoy the investigation. You will enjoy your rebate even more.

If all else has been properly destroyed, the IRS has all income recorded. They can disclose dates and increases of tax paid employees.

An out of town lawyer has a chance to become famous in this case. A good lawyer would take it , without pay, just for the publicity.

You people who spoke out in the previous commissioner's meetings done a wonderful job. Do It Again.

Oh what a tangled web they weave...when they practice to deceive...the taxpayers.

“I can tell you a restitution plan has not been received in our office,” Patterson said. Ellerby had until Sept. 3, to arrange repayment of some $8,000 in unearned income that resulted from her unauthorized raise. The overpayments date back to February."

Oh goody, I love facts. Let's calculate a little more. This is too easy. Assume it was February 1 through Sept 15 when it was made public. That is 8 months.

So, I wish to thank you generous taxpayers for the contribution of $1,000 per month that you gave to Mrs. Ellerby.

A very strange "No Bill" indeed.

I wonder what the real total that was stolen would be? You know, the gross total. All increases from all elected officials. I will let you know, if it was even reported at all.

Very interesting, isn't it?

Where there is an evil will, there is a crooked way.

Read it again. She asked a question. Are the walls closing in on the nonbelievers?

She will probably never have a need to work again. But she does want to say "Thank You" to all taxpayers.

But they had to sit in different seats and hear selected facts.

No way. Gretchen knew. Would a $1000 increase per month catch your attention?

That is $12,000 per year. Many taxpayers who paid for this stolen money work for less than that.

Think inside the box.

Well, lordy, lordy. It is that ethics challenged, eloquently speaking, degree holding Anonymous again. I was worried about your safety. The three second delay in your blogs sent up red flags on my Government computer.

I agree with you so much, sweetie. I never liked old Jerry Spinger's grandstandings, to tell you the truth, I didn't even care for Jerry Springer.

Thank you for the "what an ass" compliment, but you should know that you are not the only one who brags on it.

Mark called from Facebook and told me that you had bought the last copy of Laws And How To Avoid Them so I settled on Detection of Truth in Politics.

He did point out that if your check bounced again, he would notify me. I said, "Mark honey, as much time as I have spent in courthouses with my many divorces and simply to enjoy their crude entertainment, I do not need that book."

I did let him know that you would have plenty of money after the Grand Jury "wiped clean the slate" in mid December. You must be buying it as a Christmas gift, we know you do not need it.

Talk at you later Honey. My emails are piling up.

Viva La Crude Entertainment.

If you will answer my questions, I will never blog on Gretchen's blog again. I am a person of my word.

When did Mrs. Ellerby first receive the inflated amount in her check? Who keyed the transaction? Was it approved? If so, who approved it? How many checks were cashed that were overstated? Who noticed and reported the fraudulent increase? Was this noticed due to Walter's published reports of the salary of county employees? Were all other employees checks verified to assure tax payers that this is an isolated incident? Who verified this? Only an established legal accounting firm can make this verification. What was the name of the firm? Why was this case significant enough to pursue in court but negligible enough to be cleared by the Grand Jury?

See paragraph 3.
Ellerby has not provided restitution plan
Wednesday, September 15. 2010



Gretchen Ellerby, the former Lamar County commission office manager, payroll clerk and human resources director, has yet to make restitution for her alleged $5,000 a year unapproved pay raise.

During a fire fee meeting last week, commissioners called a closed session to discuss personnel and litigation. Asked about the outcome of the meeting, county manager Wayne Patterson said he could make no comment on what occurred in the session.

“I can tell you a restitution plan has not been received in our office,” Patterson said. Ellerby had until Sept. 3, to arrange repayment of some $8,000 in unearned income that resulted from her unauthorized raise. The overpayments date back to February.

Small minded country hicks like you deserve no better than you get. I will say it one more time. Maybe you will be sober this time as you read. A county employee does not get fired without sufficient evidence.

Can you get that through your hard cranium?