Sheriff agrees to repay $1,100 bonus, wants to keep $15 grand

EUTAW, Ala. Greene County Sheriff Johnny Isaac has agreed to repay an eleven-hundred dollar bonus he paid to himself from the county’s bingo fund. But says he plans to keep the more than 15-thousand dollars that state auditors had asked him to give back.

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Wed, August 30th, 2006

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