Posted on 01/04/2025 9:18:47 AM PST by CFW
A Montana official entrusted with preserving Montana’s history is accused of embezzling up to as much as $300,000 in state funds to pay for his tattoo, divorce fees and rent.
Michael Elijah Allen, who took over as the Heritage Commission’s executive director in 2012, is accused of embezzling the money between 2020 to early 2024, a criminal complaint filed by Lewis and Clark County.
The MHC’s total annual budget is around $2.2 million, which the agency uses to maintain and preserve three important historic sites in Montana.
Allen allegedly deployed a variety of tactics to embezzle MHC funds and launder the money through fake invoices to a shell company, phony work projects and bogus work trips. He claimed he was acquiring historic artifacts when he was pocketing the money, according to the complaint.
Now Allen faces two counts of theft by embezzlement and one count of money laundering. He was incarcerated in Lewis and Clark County before posting a $100,000 bond on Dec. 30. Allen faces up to 40 years in prison.
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People mock the fact that no EV charging stations have been built, or that no rural broad-band projects have been completed, but the truth is that it's not just incompetence. They laugh when you blame it on incompetence because most of that money is gone due to grift, graft, and bribery.
Bad headline - could have easily been a story about wasting his salary on those items.
Screwed, blued and tattooed. As we used to say.
Allen allegedly deployed a variety of tactics to embezzle MHC funds and launder the money through fake invoices to a shell company, phony work projects and bogus work trips. He claimed he was acquiring historic artifacts when he was pocketing the money, according to the complaint.
Official government corruption. It never ends....
Since it wasn’t stated, must be a demoncrap.
Screwed, blued and tattooed. As we used to say.
How did they find all this? Jilted women?
Good investigators.......he might have been forced to confess.
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