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Commissioners reiterate Ellerby allegations

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Monday, January 3. 2011
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By Kay S. Pedrotti

“Where did the $8,000 go?” Hal Williams asked the Lamar County Commission last month about the clearing of former payroll clerk Gretchen Ellerby.

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#1 Anita Job on 01/03/11 at 01:15 PM
The grand jury doesn't mean anything in Lamar Co... Unless the DA agrees with them.
#2 Anonymous on 01/03/11 at 01:17 PM
just a stink'n crook plain and simple.and i'll bet she shows up at church every sunday singing to the lord
#3 Anonymous on 01/03/11 at 03:06 PM
As a former county employee I can tell you that employees' paychecks had two signatures on them. Mr. Matthews' and Mr. Patterson's. They knew exactly what was going on when it was going on. Maybe Ms. Ellerby isn't a saint here and I'm not taking up for her but she's not the only crooked one in this scenario.
#4 Anonymous on 01/03/11 at 03:19 PM
Yea Jay ,where did it go?
#5 anon on 01/03/11 at 06:04 PM
From what I hear from the local talk around town, Jay Matthews is trying to bring Wayne Patterson back. He already has the new commissioner that beat out George Brown on his side. He just needs to convince one more commissioner (Hearn or Horton) to vote to do this and then he can come in and break the tie as Chairman. People might have voted the wrong guy into office. Mr. Glass might end up being a "yes" man to Jay Matthews. If you look back over Chairman Matthews statements. He was against Waynew Patterson being fired and he also said they should have waited til the lst of the year to vote. It is easy to figure that one out now. Glass would be in and George Brown out and with some back room closed door talks, he probably figured he could have talked one of the other commissioners to come on board. He has lost power not having Wayne Patterson in as "his county administrator." And if the other commissioners have a say in this next county administrator , hopefully it will not be someone Chairman Matthews can wrap around his finger and control. Chairman Matthews has his own agenda going on in this county and the sooner he can be recalled the better it will be for the county. It would have been interesting to see the results of a lie detector test for Jay Matthews. Ms. Ellerby did wrong, Wayne Patterson did wrong, Chairman Matthews did wrong. Something is wrong with this picture. 2 down 1 to go.
#6 Anonymous on 01/03/11 at 06:27 PM
That particular grand jury seemed tainted.
#7 Anonymous on 01/03/11 at 07:35 PM
I agree with you about Matthews he also hired the NEW office manager without any input from any of the other commissioners. I'm not saying she is not a nice person but there were alot more qualified applicants that could have been given a chance. I hope the rest of the commissioners have enough guts to think for themselves.
#8 Anon on 01/03/11 at 10:21 PM
I dont know where it went but I know where it is Coming From - Every Citizen who is paying the Fire/Ambulance Bill to make up for the poor handling of funds!!!
#9 Anonymous on 01/04/11 at 05:46 AM
You are absolutly right, lamar county had not borrowed funds for a long time before Matthews and Patterson took over and now we are very DEEP in debt.
#10 Anonymous on 01/04/11 at 08:01 AM
From what I understand Gretchen passed the lie detector, Patterson Did Not!!!! Wonder what if Jay would pass?? I would sing like a canary Gretchen.
#11 county payee on 01/04/11 at 08:41 AM
When is the next commissioners meeting?
#12 Sheila Tolley on 01/04/11 at 11:30 AM
“We know where it went,” said chairman Jay Matthews. “The amount was $7,700, and it went into her paycheck in weekly amounts from February of 2009 to July 2010.”

He added that the commission is “still exploring avenues” to deal with what they believe to be wrongful actions by Ellerby, despite a grand jury ruling that a joint GBI/sheriff’s office investigation did not find enough evidence to warrant further inquiry into the commission’s charges.

The grand jury also recommended that Ellerby be given her job back or be allowed to collect unemployment benefits.

WTF........Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles can see better than this bunch of "blind to justice" people.

Can someone please tell me who stole and spent the money? Who was it stolen from? Who is going to pay it back? I do not believe the GBI was even involved myself, surely fraud is still a crime to the GBI, right? Was this Grand Jury exhumed from a graveyard? They had to be to have no thought process. God is gonna get y'all for that.
#13 Sheila Tolley on 01/04/11 at 11:34 AM
That particular grand jury was:
Primed, deceived, selectively selected, paid off, had previous lobotomies, or exhumed from the dead.
#14 Anonymous on 01/04/11 at 11:04 PM
Any particular reason you think so? I mean, other than the usual dementia?
#15 Ms. Banks on 01/18/11 at 11:26 PM
If someone is going to suffer the consequence of a cover-up, the go down for this theft, then all parties involved better begin to hide. More than one signature were on the payroll checks, therefore more than one committed the crime. Where was the overseer, did he not review payroll before it went out.
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