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Posted by: Kate Prince on Sep 8, 2020

Thomas Tansil Jr., former assistant district attorney general for the 24th Judicial District, was this month indicted by a Carroll County grand jury in connection with a financial misconduct case, the Tennessean reports. The state comptroller said Tansil is accused of wrongfully obtaining salary and travel payment dating back to 2017 and was indicted on one count each of theft over $10,000, official misconduct, tampering with governmental records and computer offenses. Investigators determined Tansil wrongfully obtained nearly $23,000 in state salary and travel expense reimbursements between Aug. 1, 2017, and Jan. 31, 2020. They allege Tansil was paid for 22 days of military leave when he was not on military orders, took at least 141 hours of annual and sick leave he did not have and falsified travel claims. Authorities said Tansil admitted he did not work 25% of the time he claimed between July 2018 to January 2020, and they are also questioning nearly $136,000 in salary and travel reimbursements he was paid.