BOWLING GREEN, Ky.
A federal grand jury meeting in Bowling Green, Kentucky, has indicted the former executive director and vendor of the Paducah-McCracken County Convention Center Corporation on charges of theft or embezzlement of property exceeding $5,000 from a state or local government which receives $10,000 in benefits from the federal government in one year, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
The Indictment alleges that defendant J. Patrick Kerr Jr., 43, of Paducah, acting as executive director of the Paducah-McCracken County Convention Center Corporation aided and abetted by defendant Susan H. Wilson, 52, of Paducah, embezzled and stole without authority around $200,000 in convention center funds beginning around Sept. 20, 2010, and continuing to Oct. 6, 2011.
The affidavit accompanying the complaint alleges that Kerr, while executive director of the convention center, aided and abetted by Wilson, devised a scheme to embezzle at least $200,000 from the center’s business account to support his dependency on pain medication.
