Former Mississippi Welfare Director Charged With Embezzling Millions
“The former director of Mississippi’s welfare agency was arrested on charges that he took part in a scheme to embezzle millions of dollars for personal use and to pay for a former professional wrestler to go to a luxury drug rehabilitation center, the state auditor announced on Wednesday.
The director, John Davis, who retired in 2019 from the Department of Human Services, was one of six people charged in what the state auditor, Shad White, said was the largest embezzlement scheme that the office had seen in at least 20 years.”
Republican Governor Phil Bryant chose Davis to lead the agency in 2016.
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