Miscellaneous

Where Did All the Money Go?

By Anne Skove, Esq.

Lest you think that the Miss Appropriation contest is a new event, it appears that it is something of a New Jersey (NOT Wisconsin!) tradition.

The court administrator who recently was put on paid leave pending a hearing may be one in a long line of sticky-fingered officials. Pocketing traffic fines, bail money, town funds, and other public monies appears to be de rigueur, according to a recent article.

Might that life-sized Monopoly board known as Atlantic City have something to do with it? At least one pilferer admitted that gambling was part of her problem.

Too, maybe there is something to the idea that corruption loves company. (To which, we channel our mothers and ask "If everyone else were jumping off a bridge, would you jump, too?")

See Pocketing Public Funds Has History in Morris, Peggy Wright, Daily Record (August 23, 2008).

Full post as published by court-o-rama.org on August 24, 2008 (boomark / email).