re: #111 Anymouse 🌹

Oh wait, this is Beach House Sheriff Todd Entrekin! And he’s the sheriff of Etowah County, home to such luminaries as Roy Moore!

Earlier this year, it came out that he’d pocketed $750,000 as follows:

But ethics disclosure forms Entrekin filed with the state reveal that over the past three years he has received more than $750,000 worth of additional “compensation” from a source he identified as “Food Provisions.”

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Entrekin told AL.com last month that he has a personal account that he refers to as his “Food Provision” fund. And Etowah County resident Matthew Qualls said that in 2015 Entrekin paid him to mow his lawn via checks with the words “Sheriff Todd Entrekin Food Provision Account” printed in the upper-left corner. AL.com viewed a photograph of one such check.

The money in the account was allocated by federal, state and municipal governments to feed inmates in the Etowah County jail, but was not used for that purpose and was instead personally pocketed by Entrekin.

“In regards to feeding of inmates, we utilize a registered dietitian to ensure adequate meals are provided daily,” Entrekin said Sunday via email. “As you should be aware, Alabama law is clear as to my personal financial responsibilities in the feeding of inmates. Regardless of one’s opinion of this statute, until the legislature acts otherwise, the Sheriff must follow the current law.”

And this is legal how, you ask?

Many Alabama sheriffs contend that the practice of keeping “excess” inmate-feeding funds for themselves is legal under a state law passed before World War II. Yet in a number of counties including Jefferson and Montgomery, any money allocated to sheriffs for feeding inmates that is not used for that purpose is instead turned over to the county government.

Entrekin reported on forms he filed with the Alabama Ethics Commission that he made “more than $250,000” each of the past three years via the inmate-feeding funds.

al.com

Later, after he lost his primary, he put the beach house up for sale.
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And in the “giving credit where credit is due” department, here’s the link to the al dot com story talking about Entrekin’s $1.5 million windfall:

al.com

I am personally thinking that Entrekin will be in a world of hurt in a day or two, when he’s no longer sheriff of Etowah County. What a shameful, awful, horrible person this man is, stealing money from the mouths of inmates and no doubt serving them the Alabama equivalent of green bologna (a Sheriff Joe Arpaio special).