Ken Kalthoff of NBC5 reported that Marian Brown’s office, the Dallas County Sheriff Lost $600000 in inmate commissary funds.
The FBI is currently investigating whether or not the funds were stolen or if this is an accounting error.
Dallas County Commissioners were alerted to a problem at this week’s County Commissioner’s meeting. A Sheriff’s Department employee discovered problems dating over six years, spanning both Sheriff Lupe Valdez and Sheriff Brown’s administrations.
The County Auditor found more than three hundred inmate debit cards totaling $699,993 were issued in excess of the inmates’ trust fund balances. The county program vendor for the program returned $97,390.79 with a check earlier this summer.
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Commissioner John Wiley Price said other problems occurred prior to the current sheriff. Price has previously been accused of crimes by the FBI and had a federal trial of his own.
It is unclear if County Commissioners will hire Erin Nealy Cox to uncover issues when she completes her investigation of the City of Dallas IT loss.
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