Controversy continues to swirl concerning missing Minnesota Association of Townships (MAT) funds and the ouster of a handful of five Norman County townships from MAT.
What started out as a regular District 3 MAT meeting in Garvin on Aug. 7 turned contentious when these topics were brought up. Working off a tip received prior to the meeting, the Tracy Area Headlight Herald reached out to MAT Executive Director Jeff Krueger and Tammy Houle, director of District 3 (Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Redwood, Rock and Yellow Medicine counties) to get their take on the situation.
“This has kind of become a routine, and it’s very annoying,” Krueger told the Headlight Herald. “There is a group of people who make innuendos, they plant seeds of doubt. They have not a shred of evidence of anything. Instead, they expect me to prove my innocence. If you don’t have evidence, why am I having to prove my innocence? I know there’s nothing there.”
The missing money — a premium amount of $834,197.43 — is the result of an August 2022 misdirection of payment, Krueger said. Krueger said one of his staff members, in electronic communications with MAT’s insurance vendor (re-assurer), Alliant, was hacked and that an email was essentially cloned and a domain created with the transposition of two letters: Alilant.com
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