Bartholomew County Prosecutor Bill Nash is seeking a special prosecutor in the case of a former Hope Volunteer Fire Department treasurer who the state says owes nearly $50,000 to the department because of financial improprieties.
Nash last week requested the special prosecutor, who will look into the findings of an Indiana State Board of Accounts audit about Mathew Mathis, the former fire department treasurer.
The state audit, released in December, said Mathis owes $48,252.21 for a variety of financial improprieties, including issuing checks to himself without supporting documentation, more than $31,000 in undocumented cash withdrawals and failure to deposit money from fundraisers and other events into fire department accounts.
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