The Arenac County Board of Commissioners voted Feb. 16 to keep the Public Guardian office open at this time.
“It will continue operating the way it has been,” Board Chairman Ray Daniels said.
“We have a new guardian that’s doing the work and doing a good job,” [Richard] Vollbach said.
The commissioners initially discussed discontinuing the position at the end of March, after former guardians Sherilyn Jones and Robert Romps were both charged with embezzlement in December 2009.
An investigation by the Michigan State Police that began June 2009 found more than $300,000 in funds were misappropriated from about 50 clients from 1999 to 2009.
The Michigan State Police arrested Romps and Jones, along with Jones’ mother, Sally Lebeau, on Dec. 8. Lebeau was charged with conspiring to embezzle over $200 but less than $1,000.
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So who'll be watching the guys who are now watching the store?
ReplyDeleteI hope the new public gusrdian will be subjected to strict oversight and even more important -- accountability.
ReplyDeleteLet's make mandatory oversight in all guardianships by an uninterested party! There is just too much embezzling.
ReplyDeleteIt would be a great volunteer program to monitor guardianships! I'd love to do it knowing what I know now.
ReplyDeleteThe government employees decided that other government employees wouldn't lose their jobs. There's a shocker.
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