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The Clay County
Commission has
named Dan Griendo as a replacement
for Prosecutor Jeff
Davis, who has
resigned
to
return to private
practice.
Davis told the
Clay Communicator
he was leaving to attend to his personal finances.
The Charleston Daily Mail reported "Sources familiar with the ongoing investigation into the operations
and
lending practices of the Bank of Clay, which has come under federal
regulatory scrutiny after it was discovered that former bank president and
state school board member J.D. Morris had been embezzling, say that
Davis has substantial debts with the struggling bank."
Bill Charnock, director of the West Virginia
Prosecutors Institute said Griendo, a 2002 graduate of the West Virginia
University College of Law, had been serving as law clerk for Webster
Circuit Judge Jack Alsop.
Davis recently had his law license suspended
for non-payment of dues, but they have now been restored.
Davis was initially elected Clay prosecutor without a law license in 1992, when he failed the bar exam.
The county extended the term of acting prosecutor Wayne
King until Davis
could pass the exam.
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