When Covington County residents, like most Americans, look back on 2008 they will likely recall a year of change.
It was the year that Americans elected their first African-American leader; the year that Covington County and Andalusia residents made sweeping political changes; the year that scandal changed the Covington County Courthouse.
Judge indicted, found guilty
But let us rewind to June, when then-Probate Judge Sherrie Phillips on June 4 proclaimed her innocence in the face of rampant rumors of her impending arrest.
Phillips told The Star-News: “What people are saying is that there’s an investigation going on about how I stole from estates. I can tell you there’s no money missing from the probate office or from any estate. It’s all intact and accounted for. We’re audited every year and (the audits) have always been good. What’s happening now is just rumors and speculation, I don’t know where they’re coming from.”
Where the rumors were coming from was an attorney general’s investigation which led to Phillips’ indictment on six felony theft and ethics charges. She was indicted for the theft of $1.8 million from the estate of Cary Douglas Piper just a week after she said the money was “intact and accounted for.”
Full Article and Source:
2008: The year that was
See also:
Others Feel Victimized
Probate Judge Convicted
Judge on Trial
It was the year that Americans elected their first African-American leader; the year that Covington County and Andalusia residents made sweeping political changes; the year that scandal changed the Covington County Courthouse.
Judge indicted, found guilty
But let us rewind to June, when then-Probate Judge Sherrie Phillips on June 4 proclaimed her innocence in the face of rampant rumors of her impending arrest.
Phillips told The Star-News: “What people are saying is that there’s an investigation going on about how I stole from estates. I can tell you there’s no money missing from the probate office or from any estate. It’s all intact and accounted for. We’re audited every year and (the audits) have always been good. What’s happening now is just rumors and speculation, I don’t know where they’re coming from.”
Where the rumors were coming from was an attorney general’s investigation which led to Phillips’ indictment on six felony theft and ethics charges. She was indicted for the theft of $1.8 million from the estate of Cary Douglas Piper just a week after she said the money was “intact and accounted for.”
Full Article and Source:
2008: The year that was
See also:
Others Feel Victimized
Probate Judge Convicted
Judge on Trial
2 comments:
We always wonder, beyond direct theft from an estate, when a judge is clearly in violation of the law, what's in it for him/her.
Unscrupulous Lawyers who are politically appointed to Judges are still unscupulous.
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