Former state auditor candidate indicted for illegal checks
EDITOR'S NOTE: The charges against Lipinsky were subsequently withdrawn, dismissed in court and expunged.
A 2018 candidate for the Republican nomination for state auditor has been arrested on three felony charges related to illegally accessing and attempting to access confidential law enforcement records, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced Friday.
Two of the charges involved his opponents in the primary race for auditor.
Elliott Owen Lipinsky surrendered to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office Wednesday and was released on bond.
Lipinsky, 32, of Pike Road, was formerly a deputy district attorney for the Fourth Judicial Circuit, assigned to Wilcox County.
The attorney general office special prosecutions division presented evidence to a Montgomery County grand jury on March 29, resulting in his indictment.
Lipinsky is charged with two counts of computer tampering for improperly using Alabama’s Law Enforcement Tactical System, a computer system operated by the state, and one count of attempted computer tampering.
The computer tampering charges are for illegally viewing confidential information of Stanley Cooke, an opponent of Lipinsky in the auditor’s race, and of Kynesha Adams, also a former deputy district attorney for Wilcox County. The attempted computer tampering charge is for unsuccessfully trying to view confidential information of Jim Zeigler, another of Lipinsky’s opponents in the auditor’s race and the current state auditor.
This article originally appeared on The Gadsden Times: Former state auditor candidate indicted for illegal checks
