JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A southeast Missouri development project receiving $2 million in state aid is led by a man on probation for passing bad checks.
The state Department of Economic Development awarded tax credits and grant funding to the parent company for Hometown Innovation Team for a health care cooperative expected to create 135 jobs in Cape Girardeau.
State court records obtained by The Associated Press show the president of the Hometown Innovation Team, Weaver Dickerson, pleaded guilty in 2007 to felony counts of passing more than $90,000 in bad checks.
Dickerson said Friday that he is on probation for passing bad checks but declined to comment on the cases. Dickerson says the project will help a lot of people and is more important than any person's mistakes.
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