Wamsley

MOORESVILLE — The former Brooklyn Clerk-Treasurer alleged to have cost the town more than $100,000 in Internal Revenue Service (IRS) penalties has been given a second chance in Mooresville. Karen Howard-Frentress served as the Brooklyn Clerk-Treasurer from 2012 until late last year, when she resigned. Her resignation came in the wake of the town’s discovery that it owed tens of thousands of dollars to the IRS due to a filing error that occurred in 2013.   Shortly after the town learned of this error, the Indiana State Board of Accounts (SBOA) launched a special investigation, and released SBOA State Examiner Paul D. Joyce’s report late last month. The SBOA found that the town of Brooklyn owed $103,265.03 in penalties, interest and collection fees. Brooklyn’s first penalty — for the amount of $37,484.04 — was assessed in January 2017 for “Intentional Disregard, Failure to File W-2s” for the tax period ending Dec. 31, 2013. As a result, in April 2019, a lien was placed o...