Auditor Issues Statement on School Embezzlement Case

State Auditor Shad White is applauding the sentencing of the final defendant in a scheme to embezzle almost $400,000 from three school districts, including the one in Leake County.  A St. Louis teacher was given a prison sentence this week, joining former Leake County superintendent Earl Joe Nelson and another former school official who were sentenced earlier.  White says his investigators helped to uncover the conspiracy in which Nelson and another superintendent worked together to st