{"id":113095,"date":"2026-08-08T12:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/113095\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:43:12","slug":"geneva-county-circuit-clerk-arrested-for-use-of-office-for-personal-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/113095\/","title":{"rendered":"Geneva County Circuit Clerk arrested for use of office for personal gain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall on Friday announced the arrest of Geneva County Circuit Clerk Ashley Powell.<\/p>\n<p>Powell was charged with violating the state&#8217;s ethics laws by using her official position or office for personal gain. Specifically, the indictment charges Powell with illegally using her position as circuit clerk to pay herself more than $93,000 in public funds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Use of office for personal gain is a Class B felony punishable by two to 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>To connect with the author of this story or to comment, email <a href=\"http:\/\/1819news.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#fc9f9d90999ed2889d8590938ebccdc4cdc5b2998b8fd29f9391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss out! <a href=\"https:\/\/1819news.com\/newsletter-sign-up\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to our newsletter<\/a> and get our top stories every weekday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall on Friday announced the arrest of Geneva County Circuit Clerk Ashley Powell. Powell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[14926,65,2531,55045],"class_list":["post-113095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-alabama-news","tag-geneva","tag-geneva-county","tag-steve-marshall"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117059951559576784","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}