Former Leake Co. Superintendent Gets Federal Prison Sentence

JACKSON, Miss.–Former Leake County superintendent of education Earl Joe Nelson, 57, currently of Biloxi, was sentenced to one year and two months in federal prison and ordered to pay back $143,000 in federal grant money after pleading guilty to embezzling the money.
Nelson was part of a trio of conspirators, according to federal prosecutors, who used their positions to hire and pay each other as consultants, using federal program money.
Mario Wilson, 58, of Southaven , former superintenden