Embezzlement Case Involving Cedar Rapids Clerk Timeline
Jamie May, an accounts receivable clerk for the Cedar Rapids school district, was placed on paid leave in August 2009. She was arrested on August 9 for suspected first degree theft and charged on September 1, 2009, before being fired in September. She died November 1, 2009 from cardiac arrhythmia after battling breast cancer. charges were dismissed later that year. The files show theft totals of $36,028 in 2003 and $93,610 across subsequent years.
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Jamie May
Cedar Rapids
May
Linn County Attorney's Office
Covering her tracks misused funds in district accounts
The report details Jamie May misappropriating funds from school district accounts. It lists amounts such as 36352.38, 90140.00, 7837.60, and 587784.07, with expected collections tied to enrollment and delinquencies. State Auditor figures cover periods from 2006 to 2009 and total 465013.54 in Gazette graphics.
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Gazete
Edar Rapids
Cedar Rapids
Jamie May
State Auditor’s Office
Rridaw
Jamie
State Auditor's Office
Emerald ash borer monitoring to span 10 Iowa counties
Trapping survey along the Mississippi from Allamakee to Lee will deploy about 1550 purple traps to monitor emerald ash borer activity. Iowa plant health director Robert Meinders notes Iowa is not infested yet though a larva appeared in Clayton County last year while neighboring Illinois Wisconsin and Minnesota have detections.
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Gindy Hadish
Gazette
Iowa
Mississippi River
Mississippi
Allamakee
Lee
Robert Meinders
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Clayton County
Illinois
Wisconsin
St. Paul
Minn
Meinders
FBI warns Culver of possible violence
The FBI warns police nationwide that an anti-government group named Guardians of the Free Republics urges governors to resign or be removed. The group claims to seek peaceful dismantling of government but authorities fear the broad call could spark violence. Iowa Governor Chet Culver is among targeted officials.
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Washington
FBI
Iowa
Chet Culver
The
Guardians of the Free Republics
America
Culver
Troy Price
Red tape stalls quake relief at Haiti border
Mario Polanco of the International Committee of the Red Cross waits six days at the Haiti Dominican border in Jimani as Haitian customs flag paperwork issues delaying a truckload of earth quake relief tents and supplies. Dozens line up behind him in the dusty border town.
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Jimani
Dominican Republic
Haiti
Mario Polanco
Polanco
International Committee of the Red Cross
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