Lawman Keeps $750K In Inmate Food Funds, Buys Beach Home, Blames Media

[kpete]

Great resume? Perhaps, Trump should consider him for a cabinet position?




The sheriff says he’s following the law. The inmates say they’re going hungry.

According to a string of reports from AL.com, Sheriff Todd Entrekin of Etowah County, Alabama, has pocketed over three quarters of a million dollars intended for inmates’ meals, buying himself an expensive beach house, among other items, while leaving detainees eating rotten or contaminated food. Not long after acting as a source for AL.com’s reporting, one local man found himself charged with a felony by Entrekin’s office.

Entrekin has been taking advantage of a state law, passed before World War II, that allows sheriffs to keep for themselves any excess taxpayer dollars intended to feed inmates in their jails. He’s one of 49 Alabama sheriffs named in a lawsuit filed in January by human rights groups alleging abuse of the law. The groups say that because Alabama sheriffs have complete discretion over what inmates eat, the law incentivizes sheriffs to cut costs on food.

In response, Entrekin, who is running for reelection this year, has come out swinging, calling the claims “fake news” churned out by the “liberal media.”




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[Angry Dragon]

1. Kick for exposure

[GWC58]

2. Low life PIECE OF GARBAGE!

Oh sorry. I didn’t mean to defame garbage. How about “low life piece of HORSE/BULL/WHALE SHIT?!” All of those, I say.

[Demovictory9]

3. kick

[lark]

4. A true Trumper, through and through.

Taking food from the needy and buying his fat self all the best, Donald would love him as they are exactly the same lying, mean, criminal thieves.

Edit - fixed typo. Still can't type well on flat keyboards, grr.

[PaulX2]

5. It's Alabama I'll Bet He's As Crooked As They Come

[Docreed2003]

6. A big FU to Trump for normalizing the "fake news" meme

It's not fake news just because you're being called out for your corruption!

[Cosmocat]

9. They have been using the press as a scapegoat for half a century

going back to Nixon, the liberal press meme implying bias has been accepted since the early 90s.

That said, 45 has absolutely moved it to another level, where 40% of the country now full on views in absolute faith, that any non-propoganda tubed into their mushy grey matter by Faux or whatever right wing profiteers they choose to be skull fucked by is completely rejected out of hand.

[Docreed2003]

13. Spot on assessment!

[Exotica]

11. Looking at the zeitgeist, I am sorry to say that the fucking RWers

have used the 'Fake News' meme FAR better than we have.

They put out absolute lies and not only do the RW lemmings lap it up, but in turn call any pointing out of the actual truth 'Fake News'.

They also call ANYTHING that rightly puts them in a bad light 'Fake News' and will NOT back down. Even if they halfway admit to something, in a month or two, after attention is elsewhere, they go right back to repeating the same bullshit.

It is literally ripping the country apart and is further enabling a fantasyland environment (potentially ultra violent in outcome) for 10's of millions who are mostly detached from reality when it comes to socio-economic and political matters.

[Ligyron]

12. THIS +1

[Docreed2003]

14. Agree 100%!! Excellent points!

[Catherine Vincent]

7. Because he really need this beach house right?

He could have done some good with the extra dough and use it for other means but no.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. Fake News?

Is the house real? Then the news can't be fake. Moron.

[hueymahl]

10. In Alabama, this sheriff is considered to have high ethics

After all, he is at least using a law to steal. Most don't even bother to do that.

[IluvPitties]

15. In Trump's America, corruption is a family value.

[BoneyardDem]

16. damn that liberal media for exposing another Trumpian intent on ripping of the taxpayer

sickening

[Exotica]

17. Man arrested on six charges four days after publicly criticizing Etowah County sheriff

http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2018/02/man_arrested_on_six_charges_fo.html

A 20-year-old man was arrested last week and charged with drug trafficking four days after AL.com published comments he made criticizing Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin.

Matthew Qualls questioned why Entrekin paid him to mow the lawn at his personal home in 2015 using taxpayer funds allocated for the feeding of inmates in the county jail. Entrekin confirmed that he personally pocketed some of the funds. As of Tuesday morning, Qualls faced six charges and was being held on $55,000 bail in the Etowah County jail, which Entrekin oversees. Qualls had not been arrested before, according to state records.

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Rainbow City Police Capt. John Bryant said that his department only charged Qualls with second-degree marijuana possession, possessing drug paraphernalia and felony possession of a controlled substance, namely a few Adderall pills that were not prescribed to him.

But records on the Etowah County Sheriff's Office website show that Entrekin's office charged Qualls with three additional crimes: another paraphernalia charge, another felony possession of a controlled substance charge, and felony drug trafficking. Penalties for drug trafficking are extremely steep in Alabama, where people have been imprisoned for life for the crime.

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Hillbilly LEO gangstas

The Feds need to come in and shut these fuckers down

[BobTheSubgenius]

18. This story is disgusting.

It's the kind of behavior, and the kind of regulation, that you'd think would only exist in a banana republic or movie.

[Iggo]

19. If it really happened, how is it fake news?

[Scurrilous]

20. K&R