Editor’s Note: 33rd/424th Judicial District Attorney Wiley “Sonny” McAfee offered The Highlander the following timeline and circumstances surrounding the request for an investigation into alleged payroll practices of the Burnet County Sheriff's Office.
I got an email from the county attorney in August of 2023 (Aug. 2) that said there was a question about several employees’ pay records. He asked if I would do an investigation into that matter, so I agreed to do it. We did the investigation into those names – at least all but one of those names.
Found out that one of them had not been interviewed in that process, but the records had been reviewed.