Etowah County Sheriff uses $750K inmate food fund and buys new house
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"Matthew Qualls questioned why Entrekin paid him to mow the lawn at his personal home in 2015 using taxpayer funds allocated for the feeding of inmates in the county jail. Entrekin confirmed that he personally pocketed some of the funds."
In another story I read about him, Qualls said he was paid with a check that said "Etowah County Jail Food Account" to mow the sheriff's lawn and thought it was odd and didnt question it. Then his brother, who served time in the jail, told him about the food rations and how terrible they are.
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He sounds like he would fit right in as a replacement for Ben Carson at HUD after Trump fires him.:biggrin:
Makes you wonder if the Sheriff knew about the drug trafficking as well and was taking a cut.
growing up in nw alabama, it was always assumed that they were getting a cut from the bootleggers.
In Alabama the laws surrounding prisoner care are so antiquated it is pathetic. It assumes that a sheriff's wife would be cooking for them and pretty much allows him to charge the inmate/state/city for each meal. Okay, let's say for example that Sheriff A is housing a prisoner for a city within his county he gets to charge for 3 meals each day. Then if the prisoner comes in as 11:30 pm Friday he could charge for breakfast, lunch and supper that day even though he ate nothing. So if you extrapolate that over what could potentially happen in a county today and BOOM house money here we come. I am not an attorney but I have known a few sheriffs and that is what I've heard.
Our federal government isn't any better. After Katrina a local catering company signed up to be a part of relief efforts to serve meals down in New Orleans. He and his wife packed up their catering truck and trailer, went for over a month, served meals, billed the government $120/plate. They paid the tab, and now he has three new brick and mortar restaurants and a once barely making it business owner is a millionaire on partially my dime.
I think something similar happened in Mobile County a few years ago when Jack Tillman was Sheriff. He was my high school's narc when I was growing up.
link from 2006.
http://archive.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/060430/sheriffs.shtml
link from 2006.
http://archive.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/060430/sheriffs.shtml
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It ain't "right", but as of right now, isn't against the a law. He'll have to be sued by an inmate, a judge rule, and then he'd have to go against that ruling. Like we've been dealing with here in morgan county for the last 10 years or so.
FIFY.
Coincidentally, this weekend, I was told a story about the Winston County sheriff coming to partake and “invest” in a local bootlegger’s operation making moonshine. I was told this story by the bootleggers’ son-in-law, haha. Both the sheriff and bootlegger have passed on.
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It ain't just happening in Alabama. Corruption is rampant at every level of government in America.
there was quite a bit of seemingly shady stuff going on back in the 70's - 80's.
It isn't just Ala.! Crooks will find a way.
Thirty years ago our sheriff was tried and convicted of shutting down I 75 due to an "accident" in order to allow planes to land on the interstate. These planes landed in the wee hours of the morning and were loaded with cocaine. The plane and drugs were funded by well heeled and "respected" members of the community. The local PTB made sure to protect their own and only the underlings paid the time for the crime. Biggest problem in all this was that that sheriff was and is the best one we ever had.
Get a contract with a local, state or federal government. Cost efficiency means nothing to them.
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