On September 26, 2014, Tammie Agan was ordered by Judge James G. Bodiford to pay $7,400 restitution to Douglas County after Ms. Agan pled no contest to seven misdemeanor counts of Theft by Taking (O.C.G.A. § 16-8-2). Ms. Agan was accused of obtaining over $7,000 through the fraudulent billing of the Douglas County District Attorney’s office.

Ms. Agan was employed as a secretary in the Douglas County District Attorney’s office. While employed by the District Attorney’s office, she earned extra income by typing transcripts from law enforcement interviews and jail phone calls, for which she was paid an hourly rate. She was issued a desktop computer to have at her house for this purpose.

The indictment alleged that many of Ms. Agan’s time sheets for both 2011 and 2012 were fraudulent. Investigation revealed that she was signed in to work as a state employee during times that transcript work was being done on her home computer.

The indictment also alleged that 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.

Ms. Agan was sentenced under the First Offender Act to 84 months probation to be suspended upon her payment of restitution.

The plea and sentence of Ms. Agan represents the closure of an investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation into the Douglas County District Attorney’s office which resulted in former District Attorney David McDade leaving office.

Assistant Attorney General Blair McGowan prosecuted the case on behalf of the State of Georgia. The case was investigated by Special Agent Rocky Bigham of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.