Lamar County trusted its landfill chief with a waste-to-fuel project whose price tag is nearly double the size of the county's operating budget. It turns out Executive Director Johnny Poole got paid some of that money himself.
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Lamar County's solid waste authority has spent more than $20 million on a plan to turn trash into cash. But nine years after it took out a big loan from the state, none of the machinery is operating.