Note from Auditors Inc.: This article is actually one of the last in the series that follows. We place it first (and later repeat it) so that you can get a feel for what is to come. By Benjamin Price, News-Leader When law enforcement confirmed that Julie Mixon stole more than $1 million from the [...]
By Benjamin Price, News-Leader Results of an investigation into more than $1 million stolen from the Nassau County Clerk of Court's office are expected to be released at a press conference within two weeks. Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigator Dominick Pape was scheduled to conduct the conference this afternoon at the FDLE's Jacksonville [...]
By Benjamin Price, News-Leader A longtime Nassau County employee confessed to years of embezzling money from the county a week before she took her own life April 29. Julie Mixon, a finance supervisor in the clerk of court's office, told state investigators she used some of the more than $1 million she stole to [...]
By Benjamin Price, News-Leader In a calm, matter-of-fact confession, former Nassau County Clerk of Courts employee Julie Mixon said she embezzled funds from the office for almost a decade simply by placing cash in her purse. What started as a theft of about $5,000 - to help out a friend, she said - eventually [...]
By Benjamin Price, News-Leader Relief and anger. That's how Nassau County Clerk of Court John Crawford described the mood at his office following last week's revelation that former employee Julie Mixon embezzled more than $1 million over 10 years. Her confession - made in a law enforcement interview April 22, seven days before Mixon [...]
By Steve Nicklas -- STEVE'S MARKETPLACE Local residents just got a million or so reasons why Nassau County has to take hold of its finances. Every dollar stolen from residents in the scandal involving a former county finance supervisor should serve a million notices and reminders. But once again, county officials are seemingly unresponsive [...]
By Benjamin Price, News-Leader Why didn't outside auditors discover more than $1 million stolen from the Nassau County Clerk of Court's Office over eight years? That's one of several questions lingering in the case of former clerk employee Julie Mixon, who confessed to the crime and committed suicide during a Florida Department of Law [...]
In your (July 8) article regarding the embezzlement of county funds by the late Jessica Mixon, Clerk of the Court John Crawford says the accounting firm of Farmand, Farmand & Farmand is still being used by the county and it is up to the county commissioners to change that. I encourage the commissioners to [...]
By Benjamin Price, News-Leader While she was embezzling more than $1 million from the Nassau County Clerk of Courts Office, Julie Mixon shared a joint savings account with a co-worker, loaned her money and took numerous gambling trips with her, police records show. Longtime clerk of courts employee Debra Harris Keiter, currently a payroll [...]
By Mike Boyle Now that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) report on the missing clerk of court funds has been made public, there are still lingering questions that need to be addressed. By simply raising these issues I know some will consider me to be insensitive and callous, while others will say, [...]