Judge Sarbanes was clearly upset that Ms. Moore violated the trust of not only the council and her family, but also the trust of the Pittsville tax payers. He went on to say that this isn't just a small theft of a few thousand dollars, this was major theft over a very short period of time. Hence his judgement to have her incarcerated for 7 years.
As restitution Attorney John Phoebus presented a small farm in Pittsville owned by her father, Town President Denver Moore, that allegedly appraised at $110,000. Salisbury News would like Pittsville residents to question, could this property be worth only $10,000?
Attorney John Phoebus stated clearly that the town council might actually might want the land and not the $110,000. This doesn't pass the smell test nor will it be questioned by the rest of the main stream media.
Finally, councilmen George Whited sent a letter to Judge Sarbanes asking for leniency.
We should receive a press release from the State's Attorney's office about this case and we will post it as soon as it is received.
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And restitution?
Funny how on WBOC's website it only mentions her father is the President of the Commissioners as a small blurb at the end of the story.
The headline should have read "Town Commissioner's Daughter found guilty of embezzlement."
Thank you, State's Attorney officials, especially Ella Disharoon, for bringing this case to closure. Great job!
Were forgery charges ever made, or was the obvious forgery of documents used mainly as evidence? Or was it part of the conspiracy to...?
I hope that Matt Maciarello will give us a lot of information in the press release.
But rapists get less time.
Kinda overkill.
Phoebus loves to defend the dirtbags...As long as they pay
Job very done by our states attorney's office and especially Mrs. Disharoon. Thanks goes to Judge Sarbanes for seeing what an egregious crime this was to all but especially the taxpayers of Pittsville.
You can steal over a half million from the bank of Hebron and only serve a year or so!
Restitution needs to be the full $128,000 not the farm. If they want to sell the farm as a part then that's a start. It's not a trade. If they want the Town to sell it then it needs to be treated like a repossession of a vehicle. Sell the farm and go after her for the remainder of the balance.
Where is the farm? How many acres? Is it being tilled?
This is BS! Hilary Clinton did much worse!
Which George Whited is this, Sr. Or Jr?
Does anyone else feel like we are missing a huge part of this story and does the sentence truly fit the non-violent crime? I agree she committed a crime but 7 years? And there is no way you'll convince me she did this alone; although she seems to be taking the punishment alone.
Now they need to charge the boyfriend.
Was Paul Wilber called to the stand?
I will seriously miss her.
see got what she deserved! she not think about what impact her actions would have on her family when she was living large on the towns dollar.
I cannot see how Denver can sell property to pay his daughters debt when has numerous leins and judgements against the properties he owns.
If there are liens and judgments, those will come right off the top of the proceeds of the sale. A lien of $15,000 for example, would mean the taxpayers would only receive $95,000 (minus fees, taxes etc) if it sold for $110,000.
It's a start...
Don't let government have ANYTHING to do with the sale! Market price only. If it sells for less, so be it.
One has to ask, where did the $300,000 go?
It seems extreme punishment! Punishment is certainly needed but 20 years????? She got 20 years all but 7 suspended. That's harsh....too harsh!!!!
Sorry to say, how will she repay anything if she is locked up! Don't get me wrong, I can not stand a thief for 20 years???!!!! Wow!!!!
Drug dealers gets less that actually causes and contributes to Overdoses and Deaths!
He has his share of the money she stole. Have you ever met this little rodent? No way she did this alone.
2:15. Easy answer. It's because it wasn't the commissioner who was convicted.
I do not think it is right to give the town property he obviously doesn't want. Sell that property and pay the debt. Why doesn't he sell the house next door to him that she lives in to pay the debt. Carla didn't steal land from the tax payers she stole money. She should repay money. I can't believe George Whited stood up for her. As a council member he should be looking out for the tax payers NOT a thief that stole from them.
People like Carla really make me sick. They don't think about anyone else. Think of all the stress this has put on her family. Think of her little girl growing up the next few years without her mother there to raise her. Was it really worth stealing that money and putting everyone else through hell because you were greedy! She was given a golden job and she blew it.
Trust me, she was NOT solely complicit in this act. I've been told they're going after Denver now. He refused to be interviewed during the investigation. Bye, Bye Denver
What the heck does this have to do with this case? Idiots like you will have karma knocking on your door one day. Remember your stupid comments.
Gosh, Can't wait to see what happens to Greg Johnson. Feds ought to have a field day with him. 20 years for this then he may at least get 40!!
To harsh? If she behaves she ll probably serve 2.5 years.
The judge is a idiot, Overkill sentence.
She'll be out in 2 and a half or so.
Who were the auditors of the Town of Pittsville?
Looks like they missed a big fraud !!
Hope they have malpractice insurance
2:51 you need to get off that old news. People are tired of hearing about that. If you knew half of what you thought you knew you would not post such garbage.
Lots of people are waiting for his justice to come. All in time, all in time. If not, there is definitely something wrong with our justice system.
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Denver is as complicent in this as she is. It takes two signatures on town checks... guess whose other signature it was paying the credit cards?
And I totally agree restitution HAS to be in cash not property trading. If they need to sell property, fine, but give the town cash you get for the sale.
I think the wrong one took the heat on that one 2:51. Just saying that the dog she was married to should have been where he use to work, behind bars!!
I agree with 5.12 ........
Let me say this. Whited and the whole council needs to resign. For this sum of money to go unnoticed BY ALL COUNCIL MEMBERS is unexcuseable to say the least. This is what happens when everyone turns there heads for King Denver.Maybe now the taxpayers can demand the money stolen be used for badly needed drainage and ditching services which were promised over 2 years ago.As far as Paul Wilbur there town attorney his competence should be noticed for not counseling the town council on proper audit procedures and following thru with checks and balances.
Its who you know around here.
Judge Sarbanes? LMFAO
As a Town of Pittsville resident I could not agree with 6:18 more. EVERYONE currently sitting on the town of Pittsville council MUST go & Paul Wilbur too. The taxpaying citizens of the town are paying the price for their dereliction of duty. Had they been doing their job and doing the necessary checks & balances the theft wouldn't have been possible. They cry about not having funds to improve our water quality, the ditches in the town are so overgrown they don't drain properly, pot holes all over the place. I think a policy needs to go in effect IMMEDIATELY about family members working together there as well.
Why isn't her father in jail with her? Keep digging - there's lots more to this.
With good behavior she will be out on parole in less than a year! Princess won't have to suffer for long!
Well said 5:12. People who have no idea what they are talking about are the first to make ignorant comments .
7 years, probation, fines, court cost and she lost the family farm... Who the hell was her lawyer, the states attorney?? The guy who burnt down rite aid in Baltimore got less time. Geez
She stole from tax payers, that changes the game a ton in the eyes of the court. Hence the time she received. Personally I think she should have gotten all 20 without a chance of parole.
IT is fine for everyone to comment on here but no one has bothered to show up to a town meeting or go to the last election to vote. The town is supposed to have a meeting the third Monday of each month but sometimes Denver changes it with little of no notice. They don't meet the laws for advertising the budget or the elections. We need to show up at these meetings. I am working to rearrange my schedule to show up after finally seeing what has happened with this mess. Like is mentioned we don't want any more land. Do the taxpayers realize Denver secretly has the town owning the Lions Club building and maintaining it with tax dollars? How many family parties has he had there? I know of several according to his daughter who works at the bank as I have heard her talking about birthday parties there. The town bought the white house next to Pittsville Market and owns the gray house next to the town hall that is vacant. PAY THE MONEY BACK!! so it can be used for our ditches and roads. Denver gets health insurance paid by the taxpayers too but I cant seem to get that confirmed as when inquired was told it was a personnel matter and cant be disclosed. He has sold vehicles to the town such as the green van he got from the Jackson florist man. I see an ad once in a while for a bookkeeper but if you stop in town hall they put the person in the large meeting room so Denver can hang out a town hall all day. No wonder no one will stay there--who wants to be in the meeting room--let them have the office and do the accounting where they can be near all the other office staff and machinery. We the taxpayers have some to blame ourselves but now is the time to take action. Denver admits to signing blank checks so why is he allowed to still be an officer much less on the town commission. Whited wrote a letter supporting Carla Moore--is he crazy too? They let Knapp stay in there and didn't live in town for over a year if not two. How are they filling his position? Another Denver friend or fire company member--how about asking the person who ran in the last election and did not win--give that person a chance. I hope the SA office digs deeper to see if any other laws were broken or if people lied to officers or the court. We need the money not the land to get our ditches, roads, and water better!! Please keep this post to the top so people see it all weekend. Denver was also involved in finances with the church, cemetery, and lions club...investigate those as well. Make him sell some of his properties and PAY the town not any backroom horse trading. Carla should have to do community service and make her work at the sewage plant shoveling crap when she gets out. There is more to this than we will ever know unless the SA office keeps digging. I don't know what the handwriting expert had to say but again someone was signing those checks.
Yeah, because you have all the inside information right? Idiot
Less than one year served on a seven year sentence. Do yourself a favor and get back on your meds ok?
Denver has serious emotional.issues. he has no business being the trash collector of Pittsville let alone his actual position. He is a theif and a fraud
7:08. Funny you should say that. Wasn't it Salisbury News who has had ALL of the inside information on this story for almost 2 years now!
great job Joe on the reporting here. Looks like you got them covered
Yeah I am mad she did not get a PBJ and wish the Baltimore City DA would come here to be softer on our criminals.
I don't feel sorry for her or her family, she could have flipped on her father but chose to bear the punishment herself. The people of Pittsville know this has been common practice for a long, long time. I wouldn't doubt that the property the family is offering up for restitution wasn't first paid for by the towns taxpayers. Her father is a coward to let his daughter take the punishment for something she was taught was acceptable for the entitled, like their family.
I wondered what ever happened to sarbanes. Went from a career politician to a judge. Wow that's politics for you.
She is going to jail so I guess someone did catch it...they didn't steal it she did...the blame should fall on her and anyone that conspired with her. If you had a clue about accounting or due diligence you wouldn't make stupid statements. Malpractice is for doctors.
Wait until the Pittsville taxpayers get specially assessed for defending the rascal. That should raise some ire for the Pittsvillians.
Denver is not smart but won't raise taxes he will just continue to get his health insurance and make everything else suffer such as the roads and ditches
They can't even get the water right. It's either super treated with chlorine or red as rust. The voters need to clean house. After how he treated you in the courtroom Joe, I'm surprised you won't take a personal interest on exposing this local government and it's criminal behavior. Isn't Wilbur a common denominator between the criminal acts of Salisbury and the criminal acts of Pittsville?
This was a tightly prosecuted case. The state had evidence and witness testimony that was essentially bulletproof. Mr. Phoebus could do little to nothing to counter any of it, and in the end, essentially asked for mercy in sentencing.
I hope that the trial and sentence will make others who are right now skimming from their local governments and employers think twice.
This was a tightly prosecuted case. The state had evidence and witness testimony that was essentially bulletproof. Mr. Phoebus could do little to nothing to counter any of it, and in the end, essentially asked for mercy in sentencing.
I hope that the trial and sentence will make others who are right now skimming from their local governments and employers think twice.
This was a tightly prosecuted case. The state had evidence and witness testimony that was essentially bulletproof. Mr. Phoebus could do little to nothing to counter any of it, and in the end, essentially asked for mercy in sentencing.
I hope that the trial and sentence will make others who are right now skimming from their local governments and employers think twice.
We'll see.
We'll see.
They named it PITTSville for a reason...it's the pits.
If you don't live here, you aren't qualified to comment.
If you do, please move.
1:32
I guess you were trying to be clever. You failed miserably. The town is actually named after Dr Pitts. I will take Pittsville over Salisbury any day.
You know what I am sitting here reading what the anonymous people are saying and can't believe they can't give there names. Well let me ask you all a question. How many of you have attended Town meetings and how many? It seems to me everybody wants to put there two bits in on what is now over but did not take time to go to the meetings to listen or voice there opinions. The town residents wantsto point there fingers at the Town Council for what has happened when the people of the town are just as guilty for not being involved with there community. As far as the council resigning who's going to run and take it over you can't even take time to go to a meeting. By the way my name is Edward Jones son of Lucille Jones council woman of Pittsville and son of Jimmy Jones ex councilman of Pittsville.do you think I know what I'm talking about? So if you want to complain then get your assistance off the couch and show up to the meetings and say what you want to say to the Council itself. They have a right to answer and defend themselves from any fingexpo inters the town has. So grow up.
Well I'll be darned, really. I wouldn't live in either place!
Pittsville is MUCH safer than Salisbury, and less likely to be thuggerized into an unlivable ghetto.
7:21. I know, let's let the current council ramrod the taxpayers and close their eyes to missing money. Or perhaps the Town would be much better off hiring an outside company to manage the Town until enough citizens choose to get on board. Get rid of the Council immediately.
Denver is a good man.
Judge Sarbanes was never a career politician. He is the nephew of Sen. Paul Sarbanes. His dad is Tony Sarbanes, who was president of the Wicomico County Council. Political family, yes, but Judge Jimmy was "just a lawyer" before his appointment and later election.
As for the penalty, it was grand theft and leniency was shown (7 instead of 20 years). This was defrauding the taxpayers, violation of the public trust. That probably upped the stakes.
Rapists get less, sometimes that is true. Doesn't mean they should. Or that other wrong doers should get less because somebody else does.
The Town of Pittsville had an election last month for two seats on the Council. If everybody wanted a change they had there chance then. But the two seats that were open got reelected to stay on the Council. So where was everybody? I can tell you where they were- sitting home watching Jeapordy on TV. It's easy to complain about change but not worth them taking time to do it. So sit back on the couch eat your snacks and get fat.
Joe they don't want change if they did they would get involved. Plus the anonymous bloggers would have nothing to complain about.
Then why are you commenting?
Sorry I wrote this Edward Jones.
"Anonymous said...
Denver is a good man.
December 6, 2015 at 9:42 PM"
Really? If you think a "good man" is someone who has to be taken to court to get him to pay his bills then you weren't taught right by your parents. It's truly disturbing that anyone would call this person a good man. It shows just how low some in this country have sunk. We always called your kind low class.
Anonymous said...
The judge is a idiot, Overkill sentence.
December 4, 2015 at 5:27 PM
Oh the irony.
*an idiot
*overkill(not capitalized)
Calling someone an idiot while committing two grammar errors in a seven word sentence....you win.
When voters see and hear about things like this, others wonder why the vote count is so low too? The voter turnout is so low due to the corrupt actions of those who have no interest in taxpayer money except what's in it for them.
How many people knew about the election? Im sure it was posted in the daily slime but there are so many people that don't even get the paper anymore they wouldn't know. If the town really wanted people to know about the election they would include something, such as a note, when they send out the water bill.
Really. Again here is somebody talking without a name. Well i. Quit sure if you went to a meeting you would have known about the election. They did what they were suppose to do and put it in the paper. What would you like a personal invitation?
Edward Jones you should have remained anonymous. With your lack of educations you are not doing much good to your parents. Your spelling is atrocious and you haven't made any good points. Have you ever considered some people work and have families to raise? By the time people get home make dinner for the kids and help with homework the meeting is already over. I know these things may be a foreign concept to you but not everyone can attend the meetings. There is no reason why a notice can not be placed on the quarterly water bills.
" There is no reason why a notice can not be placed on the quarterly water bills."
2:21 is exactly right but look what you are dealing with. That council would never think of something like this. Too stupid. Denver, the clown who asked the court for leniency, etc can't possible strike anyone as being in the average intelligence range.
At least I can give my name. As far as my education I do have one. You can attack me it does not matter. But all you can do is make excuses of why you can not do something instead of just doing it. The council members take time out of there day to make it to the meeting. It's funny you can attack somebody online but can not take the initiative to do it in front of them. Take note that almost all of the people on the council have lived in Pittsville all there lives, and I'm sure that the very people who who are complaining have not lived in town longer than five years. Our by the way I was typing on my phone my fingers are bigger than screen. That is why my spelling is off. So cook your dinners, feed your children and stay blind of the workings of your town then go to bed and wake to find something else to complain about tomorrow.
The George Whited is not "Little" it is "Big". I think it is ridiculous to comment on this article and not know who you are even commenting on. Little is a great guy and does not deserve the nasty comments he always gets because of the actions of his father. Two totally different people and two totally different ways of dealing with situations.
3:50
What are you talking about? I don't even see anything mentioned about George Whited other than to ask if it was Sr or Jr. The answer to that question is George White Jr. is on the town commission. Little is a 3rd.
Ok Joe I know you are a busy man but please post our rebuttals.
Mr. Jones, what are you talking about?
Mr. Jones. We just looked and found your comment in spam. We un spammed the comment but you'll need to send it in again.
Sorry Joe you are doing a great job.
3:32 get your money back. The big finger excuse only works on typos. You should know the difference between there and their. Who have I attacked? I simply stated that there was no reason that a notice about the election could not be included with the water bill. Unless there is a reason they DON'T want people to know about it. I doesn't matter what people think or if they attend the meetings or not. They will do as they damn well please. That is what I and others have learned in the 30 years we have lived here. That's probably longer than you have lived here.
Not. And if this is a Cooper or a Cropper that is responding then you have alot of room to talk about people especially Denver. But I'm not going to get into that background. Excuses are like buttholes everybody has one it's just some are bigger than others. Take time to get involved with the community don't leave it up to somebody else to do it for you. Laziness is not an excuse to complain. Don't feel you don't have a voice because you do go to a meeting give them your input you may be suprised they may actually take your perspective into consideration. But it will never happen from your home or this blog. Let them see who they are talking to because on here you are a nameless faceless person.
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