A former Alabama sheriff who resigned last year after impeachment proceedings were launched against him is now facing federal charges after he was indicted by a grand jury for allegedly lying on loan applications.
William “Ray” Norris, the former Clarke County sheriff, allegedly applied for four loans at two Alabama banks worth more than $48,000 and maintained that he would use the funds for his office’s operating expenses and jail food, according to the grand jury indictment unsealed in federal court in Mobile earlier this month.
But Norris instead used the loan money from Town County National Bank in Camden and Sweet Water State Bank in Sweet Water “for overdrawn personal accounts, gambling expenses, and other personal expenses,” the indictment claimed.
Norris was indicted on four counts of making a false statement to a federally funded institution.
The loans were taken out between November 2017 and October 2018 with amounts ranging from $9,500 to $14,000.
Norris resigned from his office in June 2021 after Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall moved to impeach him after being charged with four instances of corruption in office and eleven instances of commission of crimes involving moral turpitude.
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