Farmer Returns State Computer Equipment

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...Former Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer has returned some of the missing state computer equipment issued during his administration. Holly VonLuehrte, a lawyer for the Department of Agriculture, says Tuesday Farmer returned two laptop computers issued to him in 2010, along with a Dell monitor and an HP printer. Two of Farmer's laptops are still missing, as are two GPS units. A review of records by the Herald-Leader and The Courier-Journal found that about $500,000 in state property cannot be accounted for by the department. The records show that more than 100 state computers are missing. Department records released last week also showed that about $334,000 in computers and other equipment had been marked as "lost." Some of that equipment apparently has turned up in a trailer where state property was stored after an agriculture office flooded.