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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

Ex-township trustee pleads guilty to 18 counts of theft, official misconduct

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:04.2

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0:08.3

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0:10.8

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0:13.0

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0:16.9

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0:21.7

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0:26.2

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0:30.0

It's wild to think we have an entire layer of government in our state that really doesn't do much, certainly doesn't do anything that somebody

0:43.5

else couldn't do.

0:45.3

And yet it garners so many bad headlines.

0:49.3

And our politicians are so weak.

0:51.5

They're just like, yeah, let's keep rolling with that.

0:53.3

Let's just keep doing that. Is it wild to think about that or is it super frustrating well it's super frustrating right so what

0:59.0

we're talking about is township government and there are more bad headlines as it relates to

1:03.8

township government and this comes out of a story we've actually talked about this on this program

1:08.5

before it is in columbus indiana the columbus township trustee this program before it is in Columbus Indiana the Columbus township trustee

1:13.5

this guy's name is Ben Jackson now the Republic down there has stories all sorts of news outlets

1:18.0

have covered this he's now going to face up to 64 and a half years in prison yikes after entering

1:23.6

a guilty plea on Monday yeah he stole and misused over $1.12 million in township funds over eight years.

1:32.0

And this isn't an issue of whether this guy was totally corrupt and unethical and doing

1:37.1

illegal stuff.

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