{"id":5186,"date":"2026-09-18T03:37:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T08:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/aj-jackson-accused-in-80k-modot-fraud-scheme\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T03:37:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T08:37:31","slug":"aj-jackson-accused-in-80k-modot-fraud-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/aj-jackson-accused-in-80k-modot-fraud-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"AJ Jackson Accused in $80K MoDOT Fraud Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 September 18, 2026 (STL.News) A former Missouri Department of Transportation supervisor has been indicted on federal fraud charges after investigators accused him of using state-issued credit cards for approximately 248 personal purchases, stealing nearly $30,000 worth of state equipment and staging a burglary in an alleged attempt to conceal part of the scheme. Artemus Jamal \u201cAJ\u201d Jackson, 37, of Florissant, was indicted Sept. 16 by a federal grand jury in St. Louis on four counts of mail fraud. Federal prosecutors allege Jackson made approximately $50,000 in personal purchases with MoDOT-issued credit cards between December 2022<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/aj-jackson-accused-in-80k-modot-fraud-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 September 18, 2026 (STL.News) A former Missouri Department of Transportation supervisor has been indicted on federal fraud charges after investigators accused him of using state-issued credit cards for approximately 248 personal purchases, stealing nearly $30,000 worth&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5188,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186\/revisions\/5188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}