By Benjamin Price, News-Leader Why didn't outside auditors discover more than $1 million stolen from the Nassau County Clerk of Court's Office over eight years? That's one of several questions lingering in the case of former clerk employee Julie Mixon, who confessed to the crime and committed suicide during a Florida Department of Law [...]
In your (July 8) article regarding the embezzlement of county funds by the late Jessica Mixon, Clerk of the Court John Crawford says the accounting firm of Farmand, Farmand & Farmand is still being used by the county and it is up to the county commissioners to change that. I encourage the commissioners to [...]
By Benjamin Price, News-Leader While she was embezzling more than $1 million from the Nassau County Clerk of Courts Office, Julie Mixon shared a joint savings account with a co-worker, loaned her money and took numerous gambling trips with her, police records show. Longtime clerk of courts employee Debra Harris Keiter, currently a payroll [...]
By Mike Boyle Now that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) report on the missing clerk of court funds has been made public, there are still lingering questions that need to be addressed. By simply raising these issues I know some will consider me to be insensitive and callous, while others will say, [...]
Re: the alleged theft of over $1 million that has been laid at the feet of Julie Mixon. I do not believe that she could have stolen that amount of money on her own and without anyone else's knowledge or involvement. No matter how large the department or amount of money moving through it, [...]
I'm writing in regard to the theft in the Nassau County Clerk of Courts office. First, the accounting firm should be fired for not doing their job. This has been going on for about six to eight years so we have paid them a lot of money for nothing. We should hold any future [...]
By Michael Parnell and Benjamin Price, News-Leader Nassau County's credit rating has been downgraded again as the fallout continues from the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars by a former county employee. Citing "serious internal control and budgetary weaknesses," Fitch Ratings Ltd. downgraded the bonds used to finance construction of the Nassau County [...]
I've read so many letters from the citizens of Nassau County demanding that (Clerk of Courts) John Crawford sue the estate of Julia Mixon, sue her family members and take back anything Ms. Mixon may have given to them. Unbelievable. Has no one yet figured out that Mr. Crawford has spent more money on [...]
By Benjamin Price, News-Leader Nassau County has filed a civil action in its pursuit of the estate of former clerk's office employee Julie Mixon. The administration of the Mixon estate is pending in Nassau County Circuit Court, and the county filed a claim for the estate in August. The holders of the Mixon estate [...]
By Benjamin Price, News-Leader Following the discovery of a million-dollar embezzlement scheme and a subsequent state law enforcement investigation, Nassau County's 2003-4 audit is finally complete. The auditing firm Farmand, Farmand & Farmand presented the audit to the Nassau County Commission at a special meeting Friday, several months after it would normally have been [...]