Superior Court Judge Considers Motion to Dismiss in Case Against County Auditor

Cases involving public officials charged with misappropriation of public funds typically involve spending money on fancy dinners, cars, houses, lavish trips — and worse. The unusual case against Chamise Cubbison, Mendocino County's former Auditor-Controller/Treasurer-Tax Collector, involves an obscure payroll code that a county employee in charge of payroll used to compensate herself after Cubbison told the employee she was exempt from overtime rules. Superior Court Judge Ann Moorman will consider hear testimony from Cubbison's manager at the time, former auditor Lloyd Weer, as well as Andrew Porter, the sheriff's investigator in a motion to dismiss on Monday. Tom Rakes, head of the county’s IT services when the county’s email archival system mysteriously collapsed, has also been subpoenaed.