A
federal search warrant has revealed that a West Virginia
Reports
indicate that Mingo County Sheriff Eugene Crum was under investigation for
arranging to buy campaign signs with cash obtained from a doctor convicted of
running a pill mill.
According
to the warrant, Dr. Diane Shafer paid hundreds of thousands in cash to George
White for making Crum's campaign signs. The search warrant issued to search
Crum's phone was unsealed last week.
Shafer
pleaded guilty to misusing her Drug Enforcement Administration registration
number.
Crum
was shot to death last spring as he sat in his police cruiser in downtown
Williamson.
The
FBI also was investigating whether Crum committed mail fraud.
