Brickbat: There for the Taking

Jamey Noel, former Clark County, Indiana, sheriff and Republican Party chairman, is facing 25 felony counts relating to claims that he used jail employees for personal work and that he used credit cards from a volunteer fire department he headed and money from the jail commissary to make personal purchases, among other allegations. A state audit found more than $900,000 worth of "questionable" or "unsupported" purchases.
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That guy is an idiot. If he had a d next to his name he would never even be charged, just ask his neighbors in chicago
There could probably be an entire subcategory of brickbats dedicated solely to county sheriffs. Politician + law enforcement = seldom anything good.
The increasing involvement of criminal gangs in county governments is making the corruption worse.
He obviously pissed off someone further up the corruption chain. Maybe he missed some payments.
Was the beer he was bringing in Meister Brau?
Close enuf for a government sinecure...