{"id":14207,"date":"2014-06-18T22:26:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T03:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=14207"},"modified":"2014-06-18T22:30:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T03:30:44","slug":"oxford-mississippi-deputy-city-clerk-alisa-liggins-indicted-for-embezzlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-mississippi-deputy-city-clerk-alisa-liggins-indicted-for-embezzlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford, Mississippi Deputy City Clerk Alisa Liggins Indicted for Embezzlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #464646;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/AlissaLiggins.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14208\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/AlissaLiggins.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"Alissa Liggins\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/AlissaLiggins.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/AlissaLiggins.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>JACKSON, Miss. &#8211; State Auditor <strong>Stacey Pickering<\/strong>\u00a0announced Wednesday, June 18\u00a0that <strong>Alisa Liggins<\/strong>, Deputy City Clerk in Oxford, has been indicted on one count of embezzlement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #464646;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Liggins was booked at the Lafayette County Sheriff\u2019s Office yesterday and released on $5,000 bond.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #464646;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Liggins, 46, is accused of embezzling $12,703.50 over the course of several months in 2012 from the City of Oxford. The embezzlement was accomplished by taking Justice Court receipts. Liggins then attempted to conceal the embezzlement scheme by delaying General Ledger entries, bank deposits and using future receipts to balance General Ledger entries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #464646;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cMs. Liggins stole from the taxpayers of Oxford and she will be held accountable for her actions,\u201d Auditor Pickering said. \u201cI thank our Special Agents, the Oxford Police Department and District Attorney <strong>Ben Creekmore<\/strong> for their hard work on this case.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #464646;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Liggins has worked as a Deputy Clerk for the Oxford City Clerk\u2019s Office since 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSON, Miss. &#8211; State Auditor Stacey Pickering\u00a0announced Wednesday, June 18\u00a0that Alisa Liggins, Deputy City Clerk in Oxford, has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":14208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3619,3620,3622,5,4,2092,3621],"class_list":["post-14207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-alisa-liggins","tag-ben-creekmore","tag-city-clerk","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-police-department","tag-stacey-pickering"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/AlissaLiggins.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}