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Two Shelby County School Cafeteria Workers Charged With Theft

George Brown 4:30 PM CDT, October 22, 2010

 WREG-TV 

( Memphis 10/22/2010) Former cashiers at two Shelby County schools have been indicted for theft and official misconduct.

Courtney Dixon was a cashier at Bon Lin Elementary and is charged with stealing more than $15,000 from cafeteria funds at the school from August 2008 until May 2009.

An audit found Dixon would, "...record cash received from students in their cafeteria accounts as "adjustments" rather than collections in order to get around including those cash collections on her daily cash reports. Under this scheme, records of the students' accounts showed the money they turned over to Dixon, but the cash she collected was never deposited into the school's bank account."

There is also an allegation that at least 12 times, cash was removed from collections, recorded as being given back to the student and then, "... an equivalent amount was returned to the student's account by an adjustment."

Dixon allegedly credited money to the accounts of two of her daughters.

The audit also found some credits were put into an account of the son of the former lead cashier at Rivercrest Elementary School, Tammy Radford.

Radford apparently worked with Dixon in the past and was trained by Dixon.

The audit says, "After auditors began to investigate the suspicious credits at Rivercrest Elementary, they discovered that Radford was taking cash from that cafeteria and using back office records adjustments to conceal the theft just as Dixon was doing at Bon Lin Elementary."

Money coming into the the cafeteria accounts at Bon Lin Elementary School have reportedly increased by more than $30,000 in the school year since Dixon left.

Mike Tebbe with Shelby County Schools told us, "Due to our suspicion of wrongdoing, we turned this over the state comptrollers office to investigate."

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Police: Woman forged judge's signature to get car back

  Eileen Kelley  Cincinatti  Enquirer October 21, 2010

In the game that 34-year-old Nikki Hill is accused by police of playing, the cards would read something more like this: "Under a Judge's Order Please Give Ms. Hill Her Car Back as She Has Sorted Out the Whole Mess with Her Drunken Driving and Suspension Charges."

She hasn't, but police say that didn't deter the Green Township woman on several occasions from presenting bogus documents - altered and/or with fake signatures, including one from a former magistrate - to get her car back.

The bogus document scheme worked twice when Hill marched into the Green Township Police Department and presented documents that released her car back to her after it had been towed on the allegations that she had been driving without a valid license after losing it to a drunken-driving charge.

The law and 10 months of circumventing the system due to jail overcrowding caught up with Hill on Wednesday when she stood before Judge Bernie Bouchard to face multiple misdemeanor driving charges. Little did Hill know that as she stood there, Lt. Vince Cerchio of the Green Township Police Department had just presented felony forgery cases to a Hamilton County grand jury, which resulted in an indictment against Hill.

Cerchio then raced down to Bouchard's courtroom and snapped the cuffs on Hill.

On Thursday, Hill stood before another judge after spending the night in jail. Judge Fanon A. Rucker set bond at $7,500 on the forgery charges as well as tampering with records.

But even if Hill manages to come up with the bond money, she'll be staying put in jail to serve out the 148 days she was ordered to serve by Judge Brad Greenberg back in January on unrelated misdemeanor charges that involved a theft conviction.

Because of overcrowding, Hill, who first reported to jail in January on that charge, has been sent home nine times.

"She's going to stay here," said Steve Barnett, a spokesman for the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office.

In fact she could be staying a lot longer.

Hill made headlines a year ago when she attempted to cheat the Dent School House Haunted House out of $7,450 in ticket sales when she set up shop outside a nearby Kroger to sell stolen tickets that she maintains she purchased on Craigslist. While trying to sell the tickets outside the grocery store, a banner hung above her stating half the proceeds were going to breast cancer research. In that case, Hill was charged with both a felony receiving stolen property charge as well as the two misdemeanors, the later two that were dealt with in Greenberg's court.

In the felony charge, a judge last December spared Hill a jail sentence and instead ordered her to four years of probation, saying she was suffering from some sort of mental breakdown.

If the recent forgery charges - which are felonies - stand, that probation could be revoked and she could find herself in jail for at least five years.

That would suit Greenberg just fine. Police say the documents Hill used to get her car back from Green Township police have Greenberg's name on them.

"The signature was clearly baloney," said Greenberg. "She has a nose for trouble."

Provided Police say Nikki Hill, 34, presented false documents several times to officials, including once to get her car out of

Drew/APFired NPR host Juan Williams will take on an expanded role at Fox, the network announced.

Freshly fired NPR host Juan Williams learned an old adage is true on Thursday: when one door closes, another opens.

Williams, canned this week for his comments on "The O'Reilly Factor" about his fear of flying with Muslims, is finding there's a silver lining to his situation: a promotion at Fox News.

The network announced on Thursday that they have resigned Williams "to an expanded role" and have signed him to a multi-year contract.

Chairman and CEO of Fox News Roger Ailes used the announcement as an opportunity to weigh in on the controversy, saying, "Juan has been a staunch defender of liberal viewpoints since his tenure began at Fox News in 1997. He’s an honest man whose freedom of speech is protected by Fox News on a daily basis."

Williams, who has appeared on Fox News many times as an analyst in the past, was fired for comments he made to Bill O'Reilly during his show on Monday.

"Look, Bill, I'm not a bigot," Williams said. "But when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they're identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."

Williams also referenced statements by failed Times Square terrorist Faisal Shahzad.

"He said the war with Muslims, America's war is just beginning, first drop of blood," Williams told O'Reilly. "I don't think there's any way to get away from these facts."

NPR responded to Williams' comments by terminating him, issuing a statement that read, "His remarks on 'The O'Reilly Factor' this past Monday were inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR."

On Thursday, Williams appeared on the O'Reilly show again to defend himself, calling NPR "self righteous."

"They take something totally out of context," he said.

A noted civil rights author, Williams stressed he had used the example of his own prejudice to point out that Americans must confront their fears.

"I said we have an obligation as Americans to be careful to protect the constitutional rights of everyone in our country and to make sure that we don't have any outbreak of bigotry," he said.

"But that there's a reality. You can not ignore what happened on 9/11 and you cannot ignore the connection to Islamic radicalism, and you can't ignore the fact of what has even recently been said in court with regard to this is the first drop of blood in a Muslim war in America."

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In wake of Williams firing, Republicans want NPR funding examined

"While I have often enjoyed appearing on NPR programs and have been treated fairly and objectively, I will no longer accept interview requests from NPR as long as they are going to practice a form of censorship, and since NPR is funded with public funds, it IS a form of censorship," Huckabee said in a statement. "It is time for the taxpayers to start making cuts to federal spending, and I encourage the new Congress to start with NPR."

House Republican Leader John Boehner (Ohio), who could be House speaker next year, said that "it's reasonable" to examine federal subsidies for NPR, which he called a "left-wing radio network."

“We need to face facts – our government is broke," Boehner told the conservative National Review. "Washington is borrowing 37 cents of every dollar it spends from our kids and grandkids. Given that, I think it’s reasonable to ask why Congress is spending taxpayers’ money to support a left-wing radio network – and in the wake of Juan Williams’ firing, it’s clearer than ever that’s what NPR is."

Conservatives saw the Williams firing as a chance to drive a wedge issue by criticizing media outlets, such as NPR, which they say are too sympathetic to left-wing points of view. 

The long-time commentator told Fox News's Bill O'Reilly, "Look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."

NPR explained Williams's firing in a statement saying his comments were "inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR."

NPR operates using both private and public money, though most of their revenue comes from non-public sources. 

Gingrich, who was the top House lawmaker from 1994-1998, said that Congress should investigate NPR and consider cutting its funding.

"The U.S. Congress should investigate NPR and consider cutting off its money," he said on Fox News, calling the incident "a total act of censorship."

Palin put her response on her widely read Twitter account, saying "NPR defends 1st Amendment Right, but will fire u if u exercise it. Juan Williams: u got taste of Left's hypocrisy,they screwed up firing you."

-- This post was updated at 4:22 p.m.

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Juan Williams FIRED: NPR Sacks Analyst Over Fox News Muslim Comments

Huffington Post   |  Jack Mirkinson

First Posted: 10-21-10 12:31 AM   |   Updated: 10-21-10 12:52 AM

 

NPR announced late on Wednesday night that it has terminated the contract of longtime analyst Juan Williams over his comments on Fox News that, when he is on a plane with Muslims, "I get nervous."

NPR's media reporter David Folkenflik broke the news on Twitter.

Williams' comments came during a discussion with Bill O'Reilly on Monday's "O'Reilly Factor." O'Reilly asked Williams if he had been in the wrong during his now-infamous appearance on "The View" last week. (There, O'Reilly's statement that "Muslims killed us on 9/11" caused Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg to walk off the set in anger.)

Williams replied that he thought O'Reilly had, in fact, been right. He continued:

"I mean, look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."

 

In a statement, NPR said that it had informed Williams of its decision on Wednesday night, and that his remarks were "inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR."

Williams had been a contributor and analyst at NPR for decades, but his dual role on Fox News -- where he has also been a longtime and frequent contributor -- drew so many complaints from NPR's listeners that it asked Fox News to stop identifying Williams as an "NPR News Political Analyst" in 2009.

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