HARDIN CO.—Hardin County State’s Attorney Tara Wallace has advised Disclosure that former HC chief deputy Tom Maynor is still in the county’s employ.
Hardin County prosecutor, the lovely Tara Wallace
Wallace noted last night (04.30.13), after the announcement by Hardin authorities that Maynor was relieved of duty from the sheriff’s department, that Maynor was still on duty as the county prosecutor’s investigator. This was per an agreement Wallace had struck with Maynor upon taking office: that he would work for the cash-strapped county as an investigator for her office for a dollar a year.
Ordinarily, the prosecutor’s office is given a stipend of roughly $6,500 a year from the state to use as the prosecutor sees fit. In other counties in our coverage area, this stipend has been used toward annual funding for inclusion in the appellate prosecutor’s special prosecutor program (the one that sends David ‘Rollover’ Rands to counties on a conflict, and at a cost of $7,000 a year), toward the hiring of an assistant prosecutor (like Richland does with the hire of Todd Reitz), or to pay for a private investigator to go out and investigate cases the prosecutor’s office is handling but which might put a strain on the local constabulary’s regular duties to investigate.
Maynor, Wallace said last night, is still in her employ, but at a lot lower cost than $6,500 a year. What she’s doing with the state stipend is unknown, but touch-ups to her office might be a good guess, as there were ceiling tiles falling down last time Disclosure was in it.
Tom Maynor
We’re learning more about Maynor’s past employ (which was touched upon last night as having been in Galatia and Dupo); today we learned that he has also been employed by the city of Rosiclare in Hardin County, as well as the Pope County sheriff’s department, both of them years ago, and both of them from which, our sources are telling us, he was also let go.
We’re studying up on the “why” of the let-go, as there seemed to be a lot of people who took issue last night with the “why” of the let-goes from Galatia and Dupo. We’ve been told of a reason for the release from Rosiclare; be watching for updates after we get documentation for it.