HARRISBURG—We received news this afternoon that there is something huge brewing in Saline County.
The way our official sources understand it, the issue that arose with the city’s police pension fund following the big audit that was completed a few months back. Apparently, there is money missing from this particular pension fund; it is not an “error” and it cannot be “explained” like the water fund or the EMA/Tornado Disaster fund (although the latter of those has been rather inexplicable, as well). It is literally missing, and an investigation has been underway the past couple of months since the audit was turned over as to exactly how it got to be missing.
And the news we’ve received is that there are only two people who have access to that pension fund in the way that would cause money to be missing: one of them is Harrisburg chief of police Bob Smith (who is improperly appointed to the office anyway), and the other is sheriff D. Keith Brown.
We will keep you updated as this develops…keep checking back.