CHANUTE — Neosho County commissioners have asked County Attorney Linus Thuston to produce three years’ worth of banking statements tied to his office’s trust account, the Chanute Tribune reported.
The infrequency of deposits by Thuston’s office into the trust account appeared to be the primary reason for the commission’s document request, the newspaper reported.
Commissioner Nic Galemore recently told The Tribune that Thuston is storing unknown sums of money in his office.
In an interview after last week’s commission meeting, Thuston acknowledged that he is storing the county’s currency in a “secure” location outside of Community National Bank and Trust. Thuston’s reasoning was that the nature of some deposits is intricate and time-consuming for his understaffed office, the Tribune reported.
“Because of the amount of money that comes through, we have to go through and do things with the district court and with about four different accounting systems,” he said. “When we were down to only having two staff members, something had to give.”
