Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury sealONLINESee the comptroller’s report about former Cumberland County Veteran’s Service Officer Mark Allen Daniels online here.
More damaging allegations surfaced Monday against a Crossville, Tenn., man arrested almost a year ago on charges he embezzled money meant to assist veterans and help them obtain benefits.
Former Cumberland County Veterans Service Officer Mark Allen Daniels racked up a cash shortage of $134,245 over a three-year period, according to a report issued by the office of State Comptroller Justin P. Wilson.
Daniels did that, the report found, by writing $28,579 worth of checks to himself and his wife, writing another $14,630 in checks to vendors to obtain cash and making $79,152 in cash withdrawals.
The funds came from an account that the Veterans Service Office opened before it became a county department in 2009, the report states, and county officials weren’t aware that the account still existed.