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JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI - A mayor and a city clerk were arrested for allegedly embezzling funds from a Mississippi city.
On Friday, the State Auditor’s Office announced that Brooksville Mayor Earlie Henley and former Brooksville City Clerk Shaquita Malone were apprehended.
Henley allegedly drafted checks made out to himself without the signature authority of a second signer, according to a release. He also took cash withdrawal slips to the bank to withdraw and pocketed cash from the city’s accounts.
Malone was accused of entering herself into the payroll system as an hourly employee rather than a salaried employee, as hired. She then increased her hourly rate to receive funds she was not authorized to receive.
Agents also discovered Malone is a convicted felon and, therefore, ineligible to be employed as a city clerk.
https://www.wtok.com/2025/09/26/mississ ... ing-funds/