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Shelby County allowed an employee suspected of embezzling $1 million to stay on the payroll for two months after an initial report revealed possible wrongdoing. During that time, an additional $90,000 disappeared, according to records obtained by The Commercial Appeal. Bookkeeper Brandon Gunn was never suspended, even as his Chancery Court supervisors caught him in a series of deceptive acts .
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Losses in a Shelby County Chancery Court embezzlement scheme appear to have topped $800,000 and may go higher. Officials will say little about the thefts, which are under investigation by the FBI.
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Travelers Insurance has canceled Shelby County's fraud- protection policy, a move attributed to more than $1 million in losses incurred in a Chancery Court embezzlement scheme. News of the cancellation came Tuesday as Dewun Settle, the court's beleaguered clerk, resigned - one day after the County Commission began deliberations toward a special investigation of his office.
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With a criminal investigation already under way, more questions have emerged involving the steering of lawsuits to preferred judges at Shelby County Chancery Court. Those questions center on Veronica L. Nelson, the former court supervisor who resigned in June amid revelations that she kept a close, personal relationship with a subordinate who stole $1 million in court funds.
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Authorities are investigating whether a Shelby County Chancery Court manager forged a document in a court file related to her divorce and breached rules by steering that case, as well as the divorce of a coworker, to a preferred judge. The manager, Veronica L. Nelson, resigned in June as an inspection of her public e-mail account detailed a close relationship with a subordinate who's suspected of stealing more than $1 million in court funds.
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Financial controls were so weak at Shelby County Chancery Court that receipts and disbursements went unrecorded in ledgers, clerks had unbridled power to write huge checks and bank reconciliation was late and at times wasn't done at all. These are among the findings in a Shelby County internal control study released late Thursday.
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A former county government bookkeeper pleaded guilty Friday to embezzling more than $1 million in surplus tax foreclosure funds from Shelby County Chancery Court. Brandon Gunn, 47, pleaded guilty to three counts of embezzlement, conspiracy and money laundering under a federal court deal that avoided a grand jury indictment but could land him in prison for as long as 35 years.
