Source: Seattle Times
“The former city clerk and treasurer of a small town in Lewis County was sentenced to five years’ probation and ordered to repay nearly $1 million in city funds that she’d embezzled over the course of nine years. Tamara Clevenger, the former Morton city clerk-treasurer, embezzled $937,584 from taxpayers from 2013 to 2021, according to charging documents. Federal prosecutors sought a 36-month prison sentence followed by three years of probation. A federal judge in Tacoma declined to order any prison time last week.” [editor’s note: If the government of a city of about a thousand people can have a million bucks go missing and not even notice until a state audit, that government has WAY too much money – TLK] (10/22/25)