Former DA's Office Secretary Pleads No Contest to Theft: 1 Year Ago in Douglasville

Note: 1 year ago in Douglasville

A former secretary for the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office pleaded no contest to seven misdemeanor counts of theft by taking through fraudulent billing, the state attorney general’s office said Monday (Sept. 29, 2014).

Tammie Agan was ordered to pay $7,400 restitution, and was sentenced to 84 months probation to be suspended upon payment of the restitution.

Agan was accused of submitting fraudulent timesheets for work she did in 2011 and 2012 while an employee with the county’s DA’s office. Agan earned extra income by transcribing law enforcement interviews and jail phone calls from home on a county-issued laptop computer. The indictment said Agan was signed in to work as a state employee during times the transcript work was being done on her home computer.

Furthermore, Agan was accused of submitting three invoices in early 2013 for transcripts she did not prepare. According to the state attorney general’s news release:

From January to March of 2013, Ms. Agan submitted three invoices for transcripts that she did not prepare, but rather were duplicative of transcripts that other secretaries had prepared. Agan was paid for these invoices from the Douglas County Post-Forfeiture Account.

Ms. Agan’s daughter, Ali Agan, was given the opportunity to proofread transcripts for $400 per month. She was to do the work on the county desktop computer at her mother’s home on weekends she was home from college. Computer forensics showed that no work had been done on the county desktop computer from January to April of 2013, even though checks had been issued to Ali Agan. The indictment contended that Ms. Agan negotiated each of the checks issued to Ali Agan.

None of Ali Agan’s timesheets for the transcript work could be located when the county was audited in May 2013. Ms. Agan subsequently produced what she purported to be Ali Agan’s timesheets for September 2012 through April 2013 on May 24, 2013.

The attorney general’s office said Agan’s plea and sentence marked the end of the GBI’s investigation into suspect spending by former Douglas District Attorney David McDade. McDade retired in April and paid the county $4,000 for gray-area expenditures as part of an agreement with the state attorney general’s office, but admitted no wrong-doing.