I’m sorry but this headline sounds like a ‘meme’ for the Con party. ‘Screw the poor, keep the government funds, blame someone for making it so easy for you to steal!’ Disgusting. I bet he goes to church every Sunday and laments those pesky liberals letting the ethics, morals and values of this country go downhill.
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Nailed it! I’m sure Dotard will get the IRS on the trail of likely tax evasion…
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He should have invested in fajitas.
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He will be re-elected. That tells you something about the people of AL.
BTW. What he did is totally legal in AL. There was an article about that a few years back. The state gives the sheriffs a fixed amount per day per prisoner, it was fairly low like $1.50. Sheriff can legally keep whatever is left. Most sheriffs interviewed agreed that they could make a little profit.
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Say what you like, it’s clear this guy is very Presidential.
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The jokes write themselves when it comes to the Confederacy.
This guy is our next Attorney General or leader of the FBI.
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Yeah, I know. It’s so sad.
On the other hand, sometimes there is a boomerang effect from someone who so clearly is massively over-abusing the system. A little grifting here and there, well, nobody gets their knickers in a twist – push the window too far and the law just might get changed to “return the $$ to the state” instead.
PharmaBro also legally changed the cost of a drug by a huge amount – they didn’t get him for that (because it was legal) but they began looking at other things. Chances are he’d have stay under the radar with other stuff if he hadn’t gotten so greedy.
I am a firm believer in Karma. Sometimes it takes her a while, but she gets there at the end. Remember Roger Ailes? Karma’s good work…
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Okay. So let’s game this a different way. You, Mr Sherriff want to be able to use excess. Okay. Starting immediately the county can clearly slash the budget for this program by $250000. One can claim to take overage, but can’t then in the same breath argue the needs to be a huge overage. Next, since this budget has been over, Noone would object to slashing the budget below costs in the next tax cut round… No problems since there had been overages in the past right?
I suspect these will produce dramatic cries from the Sherriff that those would be draconian cuts.
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This sort of pilfering goes on all over the workplace… worked for a firm that had a policy that gave managers all bonus funds and/or raises not distributed to employees. Even if a bonus was awarded by a client those funds often were never distributed to those that earned them but pocketed by the managers.
I will say, however, when the clients learn of this, it becomes open season to work around. Examples. (1) Had a client ask “do we have a problem”, when I asked why, he stated that it was unlike me not to thank someone. He had sent a couple of $100 American Express gift cards which I had not received. Soon I was getting calls from my manager upset that I would talk with a client as to how I was being paid. My response was that I only answered the clients questions. Within a few days I received replacement gift cards to my home address. (2) About 6 months later another client called and stated that they had been talking with the 1st client and were not happy as they also had sent a bonus and since I had not sent a thank you they assumed I never received. Their solution was to ask me to come to LA for 2 weeks. When I arrived we had a 1/2 hour meeting during which I was introduced to staff then told to take the 2 weeks off as vacation. Since if was January that was nice. Example (3) another client from same firm upon hearing from others found this solution. They would send top employees and family on an annual week long trip, usually the Caribbean or Hawaii, etc. One year I was invited to participate. When employer found out they tried to prevent it but were told that the trip was actually to attend the parallel coming year planning meetings. Again when I arrived was asked to attend the opening luncheon then was on my own for a week, in Hawaii at that. So in these examples, while the manager pocketed maybe $500 at most, I got vacations that totaled many $1000s. Management greed sure paid for this firm.
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Clearly Entrekin is cabinet level material. We need him in Washington draining the swamp.
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While this example in particular is gross, this is likely the symptom of the true problem, which is likely that Alabama law treats prison as a place of punishment for irredeemable people rather than a place of rehabilitation thatputs some effort into stamping recidivism. I could be wrong, but that’s my read.
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Ya’ll got this all wrooong. Todd, why he’s a good ole boy! What we have here with ya’ll is failya to communicate.
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Just wait until prosecutors can go through Michael Cohen’s files: I’m sure “peeing prostitute account” will be there.
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I think Spanky may have found his new nominee for the VA.
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P, I, G, PIG. Oh, but we’re supposed to be falling down thanking these people, right?
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I wonder if he’s related to Joe Arpaio.
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State or federal funds?
Part of the problem is how stupid the law is in the first place. Are Alabamians really that stupid?
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It’s state law that allows it, so I assume state funds.
If it’s federal monies that the state assigns for this, I’ll bet someone will be all over this. I can’t imagine that federal monies are allowed to go into private pockets like this. (However, I have been wrong many times before…)
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Rhetorical question?
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