Poplar Plaza office closure has ‘jump-started’ Halbert investigation, special prosecutor says
Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert held a press conference Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022 outside the Shelby County Clerk’s Office at 150 Washington Ave. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian file)
Wanda Halbert’s office has been under investigation since June. The Chattanooga prosecutor leading the probe tells The Daily Memphian the closing of the Poplar Plaza clerk’s office has his attention.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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