Published 2:57 pm Tuesday, September 8, 2026 While one investigation has ended, another may be on the horizon, The Union-Recorder has learned. It’s the latest development in a case involving Baldwin County government and how county officials have conducted financial business in recent years. A recent preliminary probe by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Region 6 Investigative Office in Milledgeville into possible financial wrongdoing in county government wrapped up last week. The case file was presented to Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney T. Wright Barksdale III for a review of the findings on Sept. 2. “The people of Baldwin County deserve and are entitled to answers; they are the ones suffering, and they deserve to know what happened to their tax dollars and where it went,” Barksdale told the newspaper during a Friday morning interview at his office in Milledgeville. “As the district attorney, I do not have the responsibility or authority to be an investigative agency. I’m a prosecutor. My office and my team, we are prosecutors. We rely on law enforcement to conduct these investigations.” Barksdale said the preliminary investigation by the GBI was not what he had expected to receive after several weeks of the state law enforcement’s investigation. “The case file given to us was thin and incomplete,” Barksdale said. “It doesn’t look at the entire financials of the county, and it doesn’t make an effort to corroborate or disprove what was told, and because of…
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