Melodie Phelps, News Editor
CNHI
5-18-10 — Former Wayne County Clerk Melissa Turpin was formally sentenced in
Franklin Circuit Court on Friday, May 7, after she entered an Alford plea of
guilty to two counts of willfully filing or making a false tax return to the
Kentucky Revenue Cabinet.
Turpin received a five year sentence on each count to run concurrent.
The jail time was probated. Turpin was also ordered to pay $200 in monthly
restitution.
The charges were for the tax years of 2007 and 2008, when audit reports
of the Wayne County Clerk's Office indicated that approximately $139,986 was
missing from the fee account.
Turpin is also currently on probation for two counts of abuse of a
public trust over $10,000 and two counts of theft by unlawful taking over
$300 in Wayne Circuit Court. She entered guilty pleas on those charges last
fall and has completed a six month sentence‹two months in the Wayne County
Detention Center and four months home incarceration. The remainder of the
10-year sentence she recieved on the charges was probated.