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Prosecutors say Truckee-Carson Irrigation District officials aware of fraud

Posted by: Maven on June 16, 2009 at 3:23 pm

From the Monterey County Herald:

A northern Nevada irrigation district official under indictment on federal fraud charges conceded he knew water deliveries to farmers were being falsified, a federal prosecutor and government agent said in court documents.

David Overvold, a project manager for the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District, acknowledged to investigators that the practice “has been going on for a while,” and he did nothing to stop it, court records show. But Overvold maintained he never directly ordered any employees to “write-off” water, according to Robert Eric May, a special agent for the U.S. Interior Department’s Office of Inspector General.

Overvold, the district’s lawyer, Lyman McConnell and two irrigation district employees—John Baker and Shelby Cecil—were named in a 10-count indictment handed up in December 2008 by a federal grand jury in Reno. Cecil since has died.

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June 16, 2009 · Filed Under Las Vegas & Nevada

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