District 5 Supervisor John McKay gave an interview campaign ad to WXXV-TV yesterday. He lists as one of the few responsibilities of the Jackson County Board of Supervisors is to “receive a budget.” Pay close attention to the wording used. “Receive a budget” is but one part of the responsibility. MS CODE 41-13-47 actually states […]
Roy Williams Office of the Attorney General July 3, 2009 2009 WL 2517267 (Miss.A.G.) Office of the Attorney General State of Mississippi Opinion No. 2009-00327 July 3, 2009 Re: Charitable contribution by community hospital Roy Williams Wilkinson, Williams, Kinard, Smith & Edwards P.O. Box 1618 Pascagoula, Mississippi 39568-1618 Dear Mr. Williams: Attorney
This week saw a media barrage from the Jackson County Board of Supervisors and their hired gun, Attorney Billy Guice of Ocean Springs. After weeks of not commenting or releasing only vague and nebulous statements, Guice came out swinging on Monday, attacking everyone involved in the pension plan failure, excepting the JCBOS. In an earlier
$345,000+ to Billy Guice & LaPorte $500,000+ to Dentons and Dogan & Wilkinson ? to Franke & Salloum ? to Daniel Coker Horton & Bell ? to FTI Consulting FBI Investigation DA Investigation Grand Jury review For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness
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During Monday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, John McKay gave this response to a retiree: “We cannot pass a tax increase to support the pension plan. We can pass one to help the hospital in some ways, but we can’t raise taxes to support” a private plan. We’ve already unraveled McKay’s fiction that the Singing River
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Monday, Barry Cumbest was quoted in The Sun Herald: “I’ve heard it brought up before” about Yancey’s possible conflict, “but Paula doesn’t even represent the board on SRHS.” See the whole document here.
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In yesterday’s Sun Herald, Karen Nelson quoted John McKay: “We cannot pass a tax increase to support the pension plan. We can pass one to help the hospital in some ways, but we can’t raise taxes to support” a private plan. A “private” plan? Is that how he really described it? A few hours later
The Sun Herald and WXXV report today that retirees spoke out at the Jackson County Board of Supervisors meeting, asking supervisors to remove board attorney Paula Stennett-Yancey. Karen Nelson with the Sun Herald writes:
The Jackson County website page for the Chancery Clerk has copies of all audits going back to 1999. Within the first few pages of any year’s audit, you will find something similar to this.
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Aetos Alternatives Management, LLC a subsidiary of Aetos Capital, LP This article is part of a series on the investments of the SRHS pension plan. SRHS pension plan has approximately $20 million under management by Aetos. Aetos is a hedge fund manager with $5 billion under management, catering to institutional investors and pension plans. SRHS