High School Ex-Secretary Charged With Embezzlement in Mississippi

A former Hattiesburg High School secretary has pleaded guilty to one count of embezzlement.State Auditor Stacey Pickering says in a news release that Kay Magee had been accused of taking $22,085 from the school between April 2007 and April 2009.Pickering says Magee was recently ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $3,341 to the Hattiesburg Public School District, $6,767 to the Office of the State Auditor and a repayment of $21,085 to her bonding company who paid the school district for its loss. He says Magee was sentenced to 20 years with 18 months house arrest