Two Clinch County employees will avoid federal prosecution by resigning their jobs and repaying 45-thousand dollars to the county.
Acting Courts Clerk Melinda Davis will resign her job by the end of October. Deputy Patricia Suggs has resigned her post as well. The two women were among five employees of the south Georgia county who took monthly payments kept off the books, and never reported for taxes. County records show the payments were ordered by judge Brooks Blitch III, funded by a 10-dollar surcharge on court fees. Blitch has not been charged with any crime.
Another county employee last month pleaded guilty in federal court to a scheme to deliver payments to himself and four others totaling 73-thousand dollars.
Acting Courts Clerk Melinda Davis will resign her job by the end of October. Deputy Patricia Suggs has resigned her post as well. The two women were among five employees of the south Georgia county who took monthly payments kept off the books, and never reported for taxes. County records show the payments were ordered by judge Brooks Blitch III, funded by a 10-dollar surcharge on court fees. Blitch has not been charged with any crime.
Another county employee last month pleaded guilty in federal court to a scheme to deliver payments to himself and four others totaling 73-thousand dollars.
