A Hamilton County Commissioner received more than $27,000 in questionable reimbursements for a satellite office and other expenses, according to a new investigation from the Tennessee Comptroller’s office.
The report did not name the commissioner because charges were not filed, but it detailed $15,500 in rent reimbursement for the commissioner’s office space along with nearly $6,000 in reimbursement for meetings at local restaurants.
The office space did not have active electric service, the report said, and the comptrollers’ office visited the space and said that investigators “observed indications that the office was not being used.”
Commissioner Warren Mackey, however, told the commission in May that Hamilton County Finance Director Lee Brouner had met with the comptroller’s office and Brouner was asked questions about Mackey’s satellite office expenses for a space on Highway 58, according to the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
