Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake today announced that a Charleston Grand Jury has returned a two-count indictment charging St. Paul’s Fire District Chief Doc McNeil Matthews, 47, of Hollywood; Assistant Chief Charles Riddle, 44, of Goose Creek; and Mary Jo Thomas-Delaney, 67, of Summerville, with fraud and embezzlement from a federally funded organization. Count 1 of the Indictment alleges that Chief Matthews embezzled money from the District by, among other things, inflating his leave balances and cashing in the leave. In Count 2, the indictment alleges that Matthews, Riddle and Thomas-Delaney participated in a scheme to secretly inflate contract payments from the District to Thomas-Delaney’s company, Grant Services LLC, and then split the inflated proceeds with each other.