Former Mississippi Airport Director Accused By Auditor Of Embezzlement

A ragged Mississippi airport director is accused of embezzling executive money for exhaust partly on gambling. [Image: Shutterstock.com]

Ill-gotten money 

The ragged director of a Mississippi airport has been indicted for embezzlement following an investigation from the narrate auditor’s place of enterprise.

mature the Tunica County Airport’s bank card to pay off his deepest charges, including gambling

Eric Konupka is stated to enjoy mature the Tunica County Airport’s bank card to pay off his deepest charges, including gambling at native casinos. He also mature the card to withdraw money from an ATM, money he later mature to quilt a cafe invoice and pick food, automobile gives, energy drinks, and cigarettes. 

The Mississippi Licensed knowledgeable Overall’s place of enterprise is handling the prosecution. If convicted, Konupka might maybe well perchance face hundreds of greenbacks of fines and as a lot as 20 years in penal advanced.

Info of the case

Konupka turn into as soon as indicted by a local court and ordered to repay $9,259.55 to the manager for his counterfeit exhaust of the bank card. The difficult covers the money he spent plus passion, as successfully as investigative bills.

In accordance to narrate auditor Shad White, the volume of money is irrelevant to the case. As yet every other, the easy misappropriation of executive money turn into as soon as sufficient to warrant his involvement.

we can withhold the line on any misuse of taxpayer money”

“Whether it’s the ideal public fraud within the narrate or an employee the utilization of a executive shopping card to select a couple of thousand dollars’ worth of objects for themselves, we can withhold the line on any misuse of taxpayer money,” White stated in a observation. “We must at all times rely on prosecutors to create the choice about when to fee somebody with a crime, so I’m grateful for the cooperation between investigators and prosecutors in this case.”

Konupka already bonded out and need to wait in Florida, where he turn into as soon as on the starting place arrested, till a court date depends on a Mississippi rob. No files has been released as to how the money turn into as soon as came upon to be lacking.

The accused worked on the airport, concept to be a executive entity, from 2003-21. His employment time is rep by a clause designed to cease taxpayers from corruption, basically based mostly on White’s observation. 

More Mississippi embezzlement circumstances

Mississippi remains to be looking out to navigate its system previous the continued Brett Favre controversy. In accordance to extra than one reviews, the Hall of Reputation quarterback, assisted by ragged Governor Phil Bryant, directed taxpayer money intended to fund welfare to serve originate a brand unique volleyball enviornment at his daughter’s college, the University of Southern Mississippi.

Mississippi has the very ideal poverty price of any American narrate at 19.58%, almost a couple of fleshy p.c earlier than the closest narrate (Louisiana).

In the meantime, circumstances of embezzlement had been proliferating throughout the globe. A week ago, an Indonesian provincial governor grew to develop to be the self-discipline of an investigation after he had been came upon gambling at Crown Motels in Australia. Indonesian authorities claimed they came upon $36.2m in Lukas Enembe’s fable, regardless of his incomes an annual wage of accurate $7,764.

In slack July, a Welsh finance manager turn into as soon as came upon to enjoy stolen over £47,000 ($56,629) in 2020 from a charity she mature to work for.