Tennessee Comptroller sending audit team as ‘boots on the ground’ to clerk’s office
Tennessee Comptroller Jason Mumpower is sending an audit team to Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert’s office to reconcile revenue figures from the office’s revenue figures. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
“The evidence of incompetence and willful neglect by management in the Shelby County Clerk’s Office is overwhelming,” Tennessee Comptroller Jason Mumpower wrote in a letter to Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris and the Shelby County Commission.
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