Indiana State Police determined that Sue Roberson, the former human resources director for Richmond, Indiana, had committed no wrongdoing. Richmond Mayor Dave Snow put Roberson on paid administrative leave in August pending an investigation after she told the Palladium-Item that she had lost money from a scam.
Snow fired Roberson the following month, but noted the action was not related to the scam investigation. Roberson said she had lost her own money, not public funds, in a scam from someone claiming to have lost his wife to cancer and who asked for help with medical bills.
"I'm just perplexed as to why there had to be an investigation," Roberson noted at the time. "I reported I was a victim of a crime. To me, that puts a question on my credibility."