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Saturday, May 5, 2012
A Florida Panhandle county's former tourism director was found dead after being accused of stealing taxpayers' money to buy a $710,000 yacht and may also have used tourism funds to purchase a home. Officials said former Okaloosa County tourism director Mark Bellinger, 52, was found dead Friday in Pelham, of an apparent drug overdose. He went missing Thursday after acknowledging that he bought the yacht and resigning from the council. Officials said he left a suicide note at his Destin house; his wife called the sheriff's office after she found it. Officials say Bellinger may also have used county tourism council funds to buy his home. Okaloosa detectives say some of the money might have come from funds BP gave the tourism council following the spill.
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