A Flurry of Fraud: City Clerks Have Recently Stolen Money from 17 Nebraska Towns

The sign at an entrance to Cedar Creek, a southeast Nebraska town that lost $75,000, money stolen by its longtime city clerk and treasurer over six years. Terry wrote herself padded paychecks that required two signatures. She signed once as the clerk – and then signed again as the city treasurer. “Once she knew she could get away with it, the amounts got bigger and bigger,” said Steve Sharp, chairperson of the village board. Photo by Addie Costello/Flatwater Free Press

By Addie Costello Flatwater Free Press Over and over again, Steve Sharp told the village clerk that she deserved a raise. When Sharp was elected chairperson of the village board in 2010, Mary Terry had already worked as Cedar Creek’s village clerk and treasurer for nearly a decade. Terry controlled Cedar Creek’s finances, records, utilities … Continue reading A Flurry of Fraud: City Clerks Have Recently Stolen Money from 17 Nebraska Towns