Clerks have stolen an estimated $1.7 million from 17 towns in the past decade, according to audit reports and restitution orders. And the problem could be worse: 158 towns have gone more than 20 years without a full financial audit.
In Nebraska, city and village clerks charged for theft or violating public resources over the past decade, plus another who took money but wasn’t charged, stole an estimated $1.7 million
Eight years ago this week, Pilger was leveled by two tornadoes. That s well known. What isn t as well known is that, in the aftermath of that natural disaster, the tiny town faced another disaster.
Money has been stolen from 17 different Nebraska small towns in this way just in the past decade. And that s only the cases where someone has been caught.
The village of 276 residents has worked to rebuild in the eight years since two tornadoes ripped through the small town. That rebuilding has been hampered by another disaster —