Greene County Sheriff Jonathan Benison denied wrongdoing on Thursday despite a recent audit released last week that his office owes the State of Alabama $4,966,427.69 for misspent bingo funds.

According to an audit released last week, Benison did not ensure that disbursements from proceeds of bingo operations were in compliance with the Constitution of Alabama.

Chief examiner Rachel Laurie Riddle said in an order on September 17 that Benison failed to show just cause why the remaining charges of $4,966,427.69 should not be paid back.

Benison told the Greene County Democrat in a statement on Thursday, “It is regrettable that, in the face of documentation justifying the millions of dollars of expenditures made to improve the lives of the citizens of Greene County, the vendetta o

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