Records: Jackson spent nearly all of $89.8M Siemens settlement within 18 months

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – Nearly all of the $90 million settlement Jackson received for a faulty water meter contract with Siemens Industry U.S.A. was spent in a year and a half.

That’s according to documents obtained by 3 On Your Side through an open record request.

The records were released on Friday, months after U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate began looking into how the funds were spent, and more than five years after Jackson received the funds in February 2020…

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