Almost five months after her one-time boss retired to avoid prosecution, a former secretary in the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office was indicted on 58 counts for allegedly billing for work she did not do and also putting fraudulent claims for payment to her daughter who was an intern.
Tammie Agan was accused Friday of 34 felon charges of making a false statement or writing, which could each bring up to five years in prison and another 24 misdemeanor counts of theft by taking, each with a potential 12-month jail sentence.
Though her daughter, Ali, was named in the indictment she was not charged because, according to the indictment, her mother claimed the $400 a month payments on her behalf. Ali, an intern, was hired to proofread transcripts Agan had produced but to do the work after hours.
In total, the indictment says, Agan claimed more than $7,000, all taken from drug forfeiture funds, which are not provided by taxpayers.
Agan has three days to turn herself in. She did not return a telephone message left at her home Friday afternoon.
According to the indictment, Agan was to be paid extra for transcribing law enforcement interviews and recorded conversations made by jail inmates but the work was to be done outside normal business hours. The indictment said she did some of that on county time. The indictment said she also requested payments for hours she purportedly spent transcribing when the work was a duplication of transcriptions done by others on the DA’s staff.
In April, then-DA David McDade retired as part of a “non-prosecution” agreement reached as the GBI was wrapping up its investigation into alleged misuse of funds. McDade agreed to pay the county $4,000 to cover disputed spending.
The GBI investigation, which led to the charges again Agan and McDade’s early retirement, started at McDade’s request in response to media reports of nepotism in his office and improper use of drug forfeiture money.
Acting DA Brian Fortner, just days after taking the position, fired Agan and two of her children who worked for the office. Wendy Agan was a legal aid and Andrew Agan was a spokesman for the office. Legal aid Cindy Foran was also fired that day.
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