Leaders of Center Tennessee State College’s campus ministry group, Campus Outreach, have been indicted for trying to steal from the college, the Tennessee Comptroller’s Workplace introduced Wednesday.
Three males, Director John Thomas “JT” Farmer, Minister Greg McCall and Austin “Audy” Smothers, a former president of MTSU’s Campus Outreach chapter, are accused of trying to steal $4,700. The boys had deliberate to journey throughout a interval when, as a consequence of COVID-19 restrictions, journey reimbursements had been disallowed. Nonetheless, they filed for reimbursement, claiming the funds had been to cowl the price of college students attending a digital convention and producing a pretend receipt to corroborate the story, investigators stated.
The group additionally allegedly supplied false monetary data to the college.
Every of the three males faces one depend of tried theft of property over $2,500, one depend of forgery, one depend of legal simulation and one depend of false entries in a authorities document.