![]() "I personally don't think the punishment is significant enough, but I didn't get to make that determination," Archer said during a Wednesday morning press conference at the Anderson County Courthouse in Clinton.Īnderson County District Attorney General Dave Clark said prosecutors often aren't able to get sentences harsh enough to fit certain crimes. 23, 2008, to May 9, 2008, but was not employed in the Trustee's Office at the time the thefts were discovered, possibly in June, Archer said.Īrcher said he isn't sure the sentence given to Pratt, represented by attorney Michael Farley, is harsh enough to deter future thefts. Pratt was employed by Anderson County from Jan. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation was asked to investigate. The thefts were discovered later when the taxpayers received delinquent property tax notices and came into the Trustee's Office to say they had already paid, Archer said. "If it's not in the computer, it's not going to show in the reports." "This was in no way anything we could have caught," he said. In late February 2008, Pratt was a part-time employee working in the Trustee's Office during tax season, when she apparently took cash from six property owners and gave the customers hand-written receipts - but did not enter the transactions into an office computer, Archer said. The former employee, Hannah Tipton Pratt, 25, of Knoxville, was also ordered to pay roughly $1,000 for court costs and additional restitution, an Anderson County Criminal Court judgement shows. A former Anderson County employee who pleaded guilty to theft Tuesday repaid the $4,600 she stole and will now serve two years of unsupervised probation, Trustee Rodney Archer said Wednesday.
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