PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - The current chief of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources says the agency should not have bought a residential lot in 2010 from the parents of a woman who was then a manager in the agency.
DMR executive director Jamie Miller tells The Sun Herald (http://bit.ly/Z3HhaF ) there are still questions about the propriety of the land purchase.
The lot in Pascagoula is now covered with weeds and bushes. It's at the dead end of a street overlooking Krebs Lake and the Pascagoula River.
The lot was purchased from the parents of Tina Shumate with a $245,000 grant from the Coastal Impact Assistance Program, which Shumate headed. Her attorney says Shumate avoided the transaction.
Shumate is among the former DMR employees who left the agency after an investigation into spending practices.
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