By Jason Schreiber
Union Leader
BRENTWOOD — A corrections officer who was fired from his job has withdrawn an appeal seeking reinstatement.
A public hearing was scheduled for last Friday on Keith Nelson’s appeal, but it was called off when he decided not to fight the dismissal.
Nelson was fired amid an investigation into his wife, Ann Marie Nelson, 55, of Chester, who was indicted on theft charges for allegedly manipulating her husband’s payroll records and overbilling Rockingham County during her employment.
She is accused of giving her husband $12,000 for overtime pay and other shifts he didn’t work.
At the time of the thefts, Nelson’s wife was the jail’s office administrator and oversaw payroll records submitted to the county’s finance department.
Nelson, who was a corporal at the jail, was not charged.
“Cpl. Nelson still insists that he did not deserve to be terminated, but at this point the well has been poisoned and he has moved on with his life and has other employment,” said attorney William Cahill, who represents Nelson on behalf of Teamsters Local 633.
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