you fucking no good dirty jerz piece of fucking dog shit.
Some corrupt piece of shit cop in Louisville tried to say this lady was crazy.
Hmmm.
That sounds JUST LIKE you and your fucking pole dancing slut, AO.
Little miss poopy pants on video running for dill.
WHAT was she doing ducked down in your car? Giving you head or hiding?
You motherfuckers are real fucking pieces of shit.
You are going to end up in prison and there are no steroids there.
Just remember this, you fucking no good crack dealing fucking loser:
You did NOTHING IN LIFE. NOTHING.
You joined a fucking club.
Even Ted Bundy could have done that.
So fuck off.
I hope you realize I am never going to rest until I see you in prison for what you have done to people. I know my friend was not the only one.
In fact, some local nurse better hope like fuck I don't find her name in the same places I found Keller's whore... taking over dead ladies' properties. And getting em from the church.
Your short, dwarfy fucking ass is grass.
Too bad about Barrett. He coulda been someboyd but you? Never had a chance.
You were always going to be a motherfucking loser.
Friday, May 27, 2011
st pete times such losers
whoo someone who know da troot about kevin white just disabled the comments on his involvement with drugs and rooms to go.
COME ON how would such ugly ass people end up w/money and homes on bayshoer without drugs being involved....
COME ON how would such ugly ass people end up w/money and homes on bayshoer without drugs being involved....
David Gee DRUGS and ST PETE TIMES disable the truth like mike keller
Social worker didn't act as if boyfriend posed threat to Tampa baby
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TAMPA — Twice this month, a social worker named Piedad Mink dropped in on the home of a now-dead baby.
Mink had a friendly chat with the mother's boyfriend. He told her he was studying philosophy. She watched him feed Ezekiel Mathis, 1, and admired how they had bonded. Before leaving, she reminded Ezekiel's mom to install smoke alarms.
Six days later, Mink picked up the mom for a doctor's appointment and left the baby in the care of the boyfriend.
All was well, she wrote in her report. Hours later, the child was dead, and the boyfriend was charged with killing him.
Mink, in her notes, seemed unconcerned that the man was a suspected child abuser who had been barred from the home by a judge. Her agency never saw the judge's written order, said Joe Rutherford, chief executive of Mental Health Care Inc.
But Jeff Rainey, president of Hillsborough Kids Inc., said Thursday night that Rutherford's agency was well aware that boyfriend Damarcus Kirkland-Williams was not allowed in the home. Hillsborough Kids contracted with Mental Health Care Inc. to help ensure Ezekiel's safety.
Another therapist from Mental Health Care Inc. helped write a safety plan for the mother to follow, and it stated that the boyfriend wasn't allowed in the home, Rainey said.
"They were present in the home when the safety plan was written," he said.
Kirkland-Williams, 21, is charged with first-degree murder. Detectives say he admitted that, hours after Mink left, he threw the baby against a dresser and pounded him on the back to make him stop crying.
On Thursday, miscommunication characterized dozens of documents in the case released by the state Department of Children and Families. The reports show that the Circuit Court, Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, Hillsborough Kids, Mental Health Care Inc. and the state Attorney General's Office all played parts in trying to protect Ezekiel. But they weren't always talking to each other.
"The reports show this was a three-red-flag event," said Circuit Judge Tracy Sheehan, who had sought to have Ezekiel taken out of the home on May 9. "Apparently, the red flags were ignored. Perhaps they didn't have all the information."
Mink declined an interview request Thursday. Her husband said she has been placed on administrative leave by Mental Health Care Inc. She's devastated, he said, and the real story hasn't been told.
Her agency was drawn into the case after Ezekiel's 2-year-old sister was brought to a hospital on May 3 with bruises all over her body. The girl's mother, Swazikki Davis, said the child had fallen, but other family members pointed to Davis' boyfriend. The girl was placed in foster care four days later, and this week authorities charged Kirkland-Williams with her abuse at a park April 27.
Sheehan questioned why Ezekiel was left behind. For days, the mother had evaded identifying the boyfriend. She said she didn't know his name or where he lived. Finally, she identified him to Sheehan. The judge issued an order barring Kirkland-Williams from the home and ordered the Sheriff's Office to determine whether baby Ezekiel should be removed, too.
Child protective investigators recommended Ezekiel's removal, citing the 21-year-old mother's immaturity and the risks posed by her boyfriend. The state Attorney General's Office said it lacked probable cause. Instead, Ezekiel stayed with his mother under the monitoring of Mink and a therapist.
At the time, the Attorney General's Office said it would again consider removing Ezekiel in a review on May 31. Ezekiel didn't survive that long.
In one DCF document, Bill Navas, chief of the Tampa office of the attorney general, said he, too, lacked crucial information about the boyfriend. If he had known the boyfriend was still in the home, he said, his office might have decided to take Ezekiel away from the mother.
All the agencies involved say they are now conducting separate investigations. Officials say much information has yet to be released.
John Barry can be reached at (813) 226-3383 or jbarry@sptimes.com.
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the truth hurts2 May 26, 2011 9:44 PM Yesterday Well this should make the national news like the one in Miami did where the foster father killed the little girl and the boy was so toxic with chemicals that rescue workers had to wear protective suits to assist him.
That also happened right after a visit from DCF where the social worker didn't check with the kids to see how things were going. She didn't check back because she said "I don't work weekends" when she went before the judge.
Unreal.
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Report Abuse 1 4 nunziata May 27, 2011 6:18 AM About 5 hours ago Uh..do you expect the social worker to work 7days a week?? It's the parents job to raise and protect the child, not the social worker, teacher, etc!! Reply
Report Abuse 0 6 lallen9428 May 27, 2011 7:24 AM About 4 hours ago DUH! That's why the social worker was there. the parent wasn't doing the job. And by the way, neither was the social worker!!! Reply
Report Abuse 2 4 Zanne May 26, 2011 9:46 PM Yesterday This is just an incredible nightmare all the way around. If I were a judge and I issued an order regarding a situation like this, I think I might have had my administrative assistant helping me follow up with phone calls and FAXes, to make sure all involved parties were appropriately informed. Just sayin'... EVERYONE had a role to play here, and certainly holding oneself accountable as a servant of the citizens is a huge piece of any civil service. Everyone screwed up on this one. Where was a case manager? Anyone?? Guardian ad litem? Anyone??
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JaneCastorLies May 27, 2011 11:32 AM Less than a minute ago good point, zanne. If you or I failed to follow a judge's order (despite teh fact I think sheehan is a showboater and do not care for her at all) we would be held in contempt of court and subsequently arrested and/or fined. No follow up no faxes, just warrants.
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Report Abuse Maxi50 May 26, 2011 9:47 PM Yesterday Is this real life or fiction? I can't follow this story, at all. Three paragraphs into it and I still can't discern if Mink is a male or a female. This is the stuff that causes the Poynter's to roll over.
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JaneCastorLies May 27, 2011 11:35 AM Less than a minute ago maxi it's robbbbyn mitchellll
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Report Abuse abby1 May 26, 2011 10:01 PM Yesterday Once again, the persons ultimately responsible for the child's death are the baby killer boyfriend and the mother. The mother knew the allegations against her boyfriend, she hindered the investigation and she knew about the judge's order. Instead, she decided to choose the boyfriend over the safety of her children.
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Report Abuse 1 10 TruthSensor May 26, 2011 10:35 PM Yesterday For days, the mother had evaded identifying the boyfriend..
She's guilty too...
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Report Abuse 0 12 thomas182 May 27, 2011 2:12 AM About 9 hours ago The SOB should be taken outback of the jail and shot dead end of story.
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Report Abuse 0 8 thomas182 May 27, 2011 2:15 AM About 9 hours ago I have an unrelated qusetion in 2 seperate articles (not by the Times) Kyle bush was said to be driving a lexes loaned to him by Toyota in one and a Mercedes in an other anyway you could post what kind of car he was driving? Thanks
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Report Abuse 3 0 SaurKraut May 27, 2011 7:08 AM About 4 hours ago WHAT HAVE WE COME TO??? Are we SERIOUSLY blaming other people for this? The crime is simple: Evil father who murdered his child, and an equally evil mother who knew he was an abuser and encouraged him to hang out with the children anyway. BOTH parents should be locked up and the key should be buried somewhere in Arizona.
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Report Abuse 0 3 cena May 27, 2011 8:24 AM About 3 hours ago Am I missing something? The judge had ordered that the boyfriend not be allowed in apartment with this child and the social worker left him watching the child while she took the mother to a doctor's appointment?
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Report Abuse 0 3 elcabong May 27, 2011 8:25 AM About 3 hours ago You're making that name (Piedad) up, right?
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Report Abuse 0 0 dyanne219 May 27, 2011 8:35 AM About 3 hours ago sorry all agencies are at fault even the judge and the parents..if u took one child away why didn't they removed the baby at the same time..rip Ezekiel Mathis..and if the family throught that he did the beaten on the little girl why didn't they take the baby...it takes a comminity to raise a child...this is so sad...
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Report Abuse 0 2 sstpa May 27, 2011 8:45 AM About 3 hours ago This is the mother's fault, first and foremost. She knew her kids were being abused and tried to hide it! Horrible! And then she's on the news with her own mom, sitting by the side of the road asking for money for this poor baby's funeral. the grandma was crying and saying the baby was murdered- yeah he was, and your daughter was the accomplice. Why is this woman not being punished as well? Moms, you have to protect your kids first!
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Report Abuse 0 4 LisaH May 27, 2011 9:43 AM About 2 hours ago It doesn't surprise me that the DCF worker was unconcerned but the mother should have been very concerned, concerned enough to protect her child, and should be in jail for child endangerment.
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Report Abuse 0 0 stratomaster May 27, 2011 9:53 AM About 2 hours ago In these cases, it is usually the lowest on the totem pole who gets the blame; the stuff roles down hill. Case managers have supervisors who are supposed to be watching this stuff. People who have done this kind of work know that it is rarely the one person who is actually at fault.
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Report Abuse 0 0 Jada May 27, 2011 10:31 AM About 1 hour ago Piedad Mink should be charged as well and fired. She should not ever be allowed to be in a job such as this again where she has a say if kids are removed or not. Her supervisor should be charged as well.
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Report Abuse 0 1 wintergirl May 27, 2011 11:12 AM About 19 minutes ago I think the ultimate responsibility lies with the mother to protect her child. She KNEW there was a court order to keep her boyfriend away from her child and STILL had the sick SOB watching her baby. She ought to be charged as an accessory for endangering her child.
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Report Abuse 0 0 ToTheBeachWeGo May 27, 2011 11:17 AM About 14 minutes ago I'm amazed at how many people let this child down (not counting the man who killed him). First, the mom. There are not enough words in the dictionary to explain how she disgusts me. Then there's the family who said they saw bruises on the little girl. Did any of them think to stand up for these kids? Then the social work takes the mom to the doctor and leaves the baby with the man she knew was not allowed to be there because she saw them bonding? Then there's the judge who has the daughter removed, but not the son? With so many adults aware of the abuse taking place in this home, why did that little boy die? Did he even have a chance? There were just too many opportunities to save that little boy.
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JaneCastorLies May 27, 2011 11:34 AM Less than a minute ago LOL. More buck passing. Trying to give the idiot sheriff and those idiots he employs MORE POWER to cannibalize families. They sure F'D with people false reports were filed about and TOOK NO ACTION WHATSOEVER AS MANDATED BY FLORIDA STATUTE AGAINST THE FALSE FILER(S) but harassed the family for two months. DAILY. TWICE A DAY. The family doesn't even LIVE IN FLORIDA and the false reporters did not even know this. THEY DID NOTHING about these third degree felonies. So now they're holding up this dead child and asking for search and seizure powers. Just wait. You'll see. Yet they were freely invited in this home of nasty and DID NOTHING. SHERIFF STOP USING YOUR UNCHECKED POWERS TO HARASS PEOPLE AND DO YOUR F'ING JOB YOU WERE PAID THIRTY EIGHT MILLION TO DO. They don't mention how much the SHERIFF IS PAID TO DO HIS SLIPSHOD JOB and ignore the felonies of false filers. Because he is in masonic relationship with them. As long as HE uses his power for vendetta no one is safe
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TAMPA — Twice this month, a social worker named Piedad Mink dropped in on the home of a now-dead baby.
Mink had a friendly chat with the mother's boyfriend. He told her he was studying philosophy. She watched him feed Ezekiel Mathis, 1, and admired how they had bonded. Before leaving, she reminded Ezekiel's mom to install smoke alarms.
Six days later, Mink picked up the mom for a doctor's appointment and left the baby in the care of the boyfriend.
All was well, she wrote in her report. Hours later, the child was dead, and the boyfriend was charged with killing him.
Mink, in her notes, seemed unconcerned that the man was a suspected child abuser who had been barred from the home by a judge. Her agency never saw the judge's written order, said Joe Rutherford, chief executive of Mental Health Care Inc.
But Jeff Rainey, president of Hillsborough Kids Inc., said Thursday night that Rutherford's agency was well aware that boyfriend Damarcus Kirkland-Williams was not allowed in the home. Hillsborough Kids contracted with Mental Health Care Inc. to help ensure Ezekiel's safety.
Another therapist from Mental Health Care Inc. helped write a safety plan for the mother to follow, and it stated that the boyfriend wasn't allowed in the home, Rainey said.
"They were present in the home when the safety plan was written," he said.
Kirkland-Williams, 21, is charged with first-degree murder. Detectives say he admitted that, hours after Mink left, he threw the baby against a dresser and pounded him on the back to make him stop crying.
On Thursday, miscommunication characterized dozens of documents in the case released by the state Department of Children and Families. The reports show that the Circuit Court, Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, Hillsborough Kids, Mental Health Care Inc. and the state Attorney General's Office all played parts in trying to protect Ezekiel. But they weren't always talking to each other.
"The reports show this was a three-red-flag event," said Circuit Judge Tracy Sheehan, who had sought to have Ezekiel taken out of the home on May 9. "Apparently, the red flags were ignored. Perhaps they didn't have all the information."
Mink declined an interview request Thursday. Her husband said she has been placed on administrative leave by Mental Health Care Inc. She's devastated, he said, and the real story hasn't been told.
Her agency was drawn into the case after Ezekiel's 2-year-old sister was brought to a hospital on May 3 with bruises all over her body. The girl's mother, Swazikki Davis, said the child had fallen, but other family members pointed to Davis' boyfriend. The girl was placed in foster care four days later, and this week authorities charged Kirkland-Williams with her abuse at a park April 27.
Sheehan questioned why Ezekiel was left behind. For days, the mother had evaded identifying the boyfriend. She said she didn't know his name or where he lived. Finally, she identified him to Sheehan. The judge issued an order barring Kirkland-Williams from the home and ordered the Sheriff's Office to determine whether baby Ezekiel should be removed, too.
Child protective investigators recommended Ezekiel's removal, citing the 21-year-old mother's immaturity and the risks posed by her boyfriend. The state Attorney General's Office said it lacked probable cause. Instead, Ezekiel stayed with his mother under the monitoring of Mink and a therapist.
At the time, the Attorney General's Office said it would again consider removing Ezekiel in a review on May 31. Ezekiel didn't survive that long.
In one DCF document, Bill Navas, chief of the Tampa office of the attorney general, said he, too, lacked crucial information about the boyfriend. If he had known the boyfriend was still in the home, he said, his office might have decided to take Ezekiel away from the mother.
All the agencies involved say they are now conducting separate investigations. Officials say much information has yet to be released.
John Barry can be reached at (813) 226-3383 or jbarry@sptimes.com.
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the truth hurts2 May 26, 2011 9:44 PM Yesterday Well this should make the national news like the one in Miami did where the foster father killed the little girl and the boy was so toxic with chemicals that rescue workers had to wear protective suits to assist him.
That also happened right after a visit from DCF where the social worker didn't check with the kids to see how things were going. She didn't check back because she said "I don't work weekends" when she went before the judge.
Unreal.
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Report Abuse 1 4 nunziata May 27, 2011 6:18 AM About 5 hours ago Uh..do you expect the social worker to work 7days a week?? It's the parents job to raise and protect the child, not the social worker, teacher, etc!! Reply
Report Abuse 0 6 lallen9428 May 27, 2011 7:24 AM About 4 hours ago DUH! That's why the social worker was there. the parent wasn't doing the job. And by the way, neither was the social worker!!! Reply
Report Abuse 2 4 Zanne May 26, 2011 9:46 PM Yesterday This is just an incredible nightmare all the way around. If I were a judge and I issued an order regarding a situation like this, I think I might have had my administrative assistant helping me follow up with phone calls and FAXes, to make sure all involved parties were appropriately informed. Just sayin'... EVERYONE had a role to play here, and certainly holding oneself accountable as a servant of the citizens is a huge piece of any civil service. Everyone screwed up on this one. Where was a case manager? Anyone?? Guardian ad litem? Anyone??
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JaneCastorLies May 27, 2011 11:32 AM Less than a minute ago good point, zanne. If you or I failed to follow a judge's order (despite teh fact I think sheehan is a showboater and do not care for her at all) we would be held in contempt of court and subsequently arrested and/or fined. No follow up no faxes, just warrants.
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Report Abuse Maxi50 May 26, 2011 9:47 PM Yesterday Is this real life or fiction? I can't follow this story, at all. Three paragraphs into it and I still can't discern if Mink is a male or a female. This is the stuff that causes the Poynter's to roll over.
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JaneCastorLies May 27, 2011 11:35 AM Less than a minute ago maxi it's robbbbyn mitchellll
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Report Abuse abby1 May 26, 2011 10:01 PM Yesterday Once again, the persons ultimately responsible for the child's death are the baby killer boyfriend and the mother. The mother knew the allegations against her boyfriend, she hindered the investigation and she knew about the judge's order. Instead, she decided to choose the boyfriend over the safety of her children.
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Report Abuse 1 10 TruthSensor May 26, 2011 10:35 PM Yesterday For days, the mother had evaded identifying the boyfriend..
She's guilty too...
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Report Abuse 0 12 thomas182 May 27, 2011 2:12 AM About 9 hours ago The SOB should be taken outback of the jail and shot dead end of story.
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Report Abuse 0 8 thomas182 May 27, 2011 2:15 AM About 9 hours ago I have an unrelated qusetion in 2 seperate articles (not by the Times) Kyle bush was said to be driving a lexes loaned to him by Toyota in one and a Mercedes in an other anyway you could post what kind of car he was driving? Thanks
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Report Abuse 3 0 SaurKraut May 27, 2011 7:08 AM About 4 hours ago WHAT HAVE WE COME TO??? Are we SERIOUSLY blaming other people for this? The crime is simple: Evil father who murdered his child, and an equally evil mother who knew he was an abuser and encouraged him to hang out with the children anyway. BOTH parents should be locked up and the key should be buried somewhere in Arizona.
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Report Abuse 0 3 cena May 27, 2011 8:24 AM About 3 hours ago Am I missing something? The judge had ordered that the boyfriend not be allowed in apartment with this child and the social worker left him watching the child while she took the mother to a doctor's appointment?
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Report Abuse 0 3 elcabong May 27, 2011 8:25 AM About 3 hours ago You're making that name (Piedad) up, right?
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Report Abuse 0 0 dyanne219 May 27, 2011 8:35 AM About 3 hours ago sorry all agencies are at fault even the judge and the parents..if u took one child away why didn't they removed the baby at the same time..rip Ezekiel Mathis..and if the family throught that he did the beaten on the little girl why didn't they take the baby...it takes a comminity to raise a child...this is so sad...
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Report Abuse 0 2 sstpa May 27, 2011 8:45 AM About 3 hours ago This is the mother's fault, first and foremost. She knew her kids were being abused and tried to hide it! Horrible! And then she's on the news with her own mom, sitting by the side of the road asking for money for this poor baby's funeral. the grandma was crying and saying the baby was murdered- yeah he was, and your daughter was the accomplice. Why is this woman not being punished as well? Moms, you have to protect your kids first!
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Report Abuse 0 4 LisaH May 27, 2011 9:43 AM About 2 hours ago It doesn't surprise me that the DCF worker was unconcerned but the mother should have been very concerned, concerned enough to protect her child, and should be in jail for child endangerment.
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Report Abuse 0 0 stratomaster May 27, 2011 9:53 AM About 2 hours ago In these cases, it is usually the lowest on the totem pole who gets the blame; the stuff roles down hill. Case managers have supervisors who are supposed to be watching this stuff. People who have done this kind of work know that it is rarely the one person who is actually at fault.
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Report Abuse 0 0 Jada May 27, 2011 10:31 AM About 1 hour ago Piedad Mink should be charged as well and fired. She should not ever be allowed to be in a job such as this again where she has a say if kids are removed or not. Her supervisor should be charged as well.
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Report Abuse 0 1 wintergirl May 27, 2011 11:12 AM About 19 minutes ago I think the ultimate responsibility lies with the mother to protect her child. She KNEW there was a court order to keep her boyfriend away from her child and STILL had the sick SOB watching her baby. She ought to be charged as an accessory for endangering her child.
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Report Abuse 0 0 ToTheBeachWeGo May 27, 2011 11:17 AM About 14 minutes ago I'm amazed at how many people let this child down (not counting the man who killed him). First, the mom. There are not enough words in the dictionary to explain how she disgusts me. Then there's the family who said they saw bruises on the little girl. Did any of them think to stand up for these kids? Then the social work takes the mom to the doctor and leaves the baby with the man she knew was not allowed to be there because she saw them bonding? Then there's the judge who has the daughter removed, but not the son? With so many adults aware of the abuse taking place in this home, why did that little boy die? Did he even have a chance? There were just too many opportunities to save that little boy.
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JaneCastorLies May 27, 2011 11:34 AM Less than a minute ago LOL. More buck passing. Trying to give the idiot sheriff and those idiots he employs MORE POWER to cannibalize families. They sure F'D with people false reports were filed about and TOOK NO ACTION WHATSOEVER AS MANDATED BY FLORIDA STATUTE AGAINST THE FALSE FILER(S) but harassed the family for two months. DAILY. TWICE A DAY. The family doesn't even LIVE IN FLORIDA and the false reporters did not even know this. THEY DID NOTHING about these third degree felonies. So now they're holding up this dead child and asking for search and seizure powers. Just wait. You'll see. Yet they were freely invited in this home of nasty and DID NOTHING. SHERIFF STOP USING YOUR UNCHECKED POWERS TO HARASS PEOPLE AND DO YOUR F'ING JOB YOU WERE PAID THIRTY EIGHT MILLION TO DO. They don't mention how much the SHERIFF IS PAID TO DO HIS SLIPSHOD JOB and ignore the felonies of false filers. Because he is in masonic relationship with them. As long as HE uses his power for vendetta no one is safe
renee lee get your story straight
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TAMPA — Former Hillsborough County Commissioner Kevin White says County Attorney Renee Lee called him to get their stories straight about a controversial April luncheon they had.
And that conversation was overheard by a lawyer when White put the call on speakerphone, said his attorney, Michael Laurato.
Laurato said White made that and several other potentially inflammatory claims during a sworn deposition this week. The deposition was taken as part of a lawsuit in which White and the county are suing each other over who should pay legal bills for his 2009 sexual harassment case.
Commissioners are calling for an explanation from Lee for why she socialized with someone the county is suing. At least two of them believe she has changed her story, as they recall it — first telling them that the April 8 lunch at Roy's restaurant in West Tampa was a chance encounter.
Lee did not return a phone call Thursday seeking comment.
She was already on the hot seat for her role in a secret pay raise she and former County Administrator Pat Bean got. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement also has said that she may have lied about how she came into possession of e-mail files of auditors who unearthed the raises.
Laurato said that during testimony Wednesday, White said Lee had called him when a reporter began asking questions about their get-together. At the time, White happened to be in the office of criminal defense lawyer Ronald Cacciatore.
"Mr. White testified at his deposition … that Ms. Lee called him and he answered the phone on speakerphone," Laurato said. "Ms. Lee said we need to get our story straight about this."
It's not clear why White was meeting with a criminal defense lawyer, and Cacciatore did not return phone calls for comment.
It's also not clear how that call jibes with text messages between the two that Laurato disseminated earlier this week. In one, April 18, sent by Lee after a television news story about the luncheon, Lee says she didn't tell anyone she had "bumped into" White as the broadcast indicated.
"I decided early on that there was no reason to lie," she wrote.
In any event, Laurato claims that the speakerphone call was one of "numerous" conversations between the two since February, or maybe January, that took place by phone or text message. In them, Lee made sympathetic statements about White's plight, Laurato said.
He claims that Lee told his client she didn't understand why the county was pressing its case against White since he has said a ruling against him will force him into bankruptcy, resulting in the county getting nothing. One one occasion, he said, Lee offered her assistance.
"There was a reference that she would try to help out however she could," Laurato said. "This is my paraphrasing of his deposition testimony."
A transcript of White's testimony has not been prepared yet, and it was not possible to verify Laurato's depiction.
White left office in November after getting trounced by two opponents in the Democratic primary when he sought re-election.
A year earlier, a federal civil jury found White sexually harassed former aide Alyssa Ogden by firing her for refusing his sexual advances. The county amassed nearly $500,000 in legal bills, including a $75,000 award to Ogden.
An insurance policy covered a small portion of the costs and commissioners are trying to get White to pay some of the roughly $425,000 balance. White, meanwhile, is suing the county and the insurer to cover about $155,000 in bills from his own attorneys.
The county has retained outside counsel to handle its side of the suit, with lawyer Richard Harrison taking the job for free. He declined to comment about Laurato's depiction of White's statements.
Laurato has blasted the luncheon and conversations, saying it was not proper for the county's top attorney to meet with his client without White's attorney present. That's particularly so since Lee broached the topic of a recent home purchase by White that could be seen as a financial asset relevant to the case.
He said Thursday that he may seek to have Harrison removed from the case because of the possibility that Lee was sharing information with him.
Harrison said he has not talked to Lee about the case, using another lawyer in her office as a point of contact. He said he has no indication that Lee is shaping the direction he has received.
"The feedback from the county has been, 'Go get him,' " Harrison said.
He noted that a transcript of the deposition will offer more relevant testimony, including White's assertion under oath that he didn't sexually harass his aide, despite the jury's ruling.
The story of the luncheon between Lee and White was first reported in a political insider column of the trilingual newsweekly La Gaceta. Owner and column author Patrick Manteiga told the St. Petersburg Times that White showed him text messages from Lee leading up to the luncheon asking about his home purchase and empathizing with him over stories scrutinizing the deal.
He said White asked him, and Manteiga agreed, to swing by the restaurant that day to witness the lunch, saying White didn't understand why the attorney wanted to meet with him.
In addition to running the newspaper, Manteiga is a political consultant and operative who has often defended White against critical stories in other news outlets.
Manteiga says the Times misquoted him acknowledging they had set Lee up.
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CLWPilot May 27, 2011 3:18 AM About 8 hours ago Ms. Lee needs to find new employment.
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Report Abuse 0 2 Just The Facts May 27, 2011 9:49 AM About 2 hours ago Add one more SLEAZE BALL to the mix...PATRICK MANTEGIA!!! Patrick Mantegia is an "OPERATIVE" trying to yeild influence to LIARS like KEVIN WHITE and STACY FRANK! Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 Just The Facts May 27, 2011 9:55 AM About 2 hours ago Oh Yeah! Forgot to mention, Manteiga is a LIAR too! Just look at the quote above "Manteiga says the Times misquoted him acknowledging they had set Lee up." But it's OBVIOUS it was a set up! KEVIN WHITE, STACY FRANK AND PATRICK MANTEIGA ARE ALL LIARS!!! Don't believe a word any of these people have to say, they are all a DISGRACE to the DEMOCRATIC PARTY! Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 nocheapshots May 27, 2011 10:32 AM About 1 hour ago Mr. White is quite The Operator. And Mrs. Lee doesn't have much street sense. Mrs. Lee, time to update your resume and apply for a small, out of the way county like Glades County or Dixie County. Your face has a lovely glow, but your career in Hillsborough County is toast. Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 EddyJ May 27, 2011 3:36 AM About 8 hours ago zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Report Abuse 2 0 somethingtosay May 27, 2011 5:40 AM About 6 hours ago Really? This has gone beyond absurd. Kevin White and his lawyer are sleazy. This is the same lawyer who was arrested recently. If Kevin White has a friend in town after this, shame on them. He is creepy and still a liar. Who is the lawyer that heard this and what is the context of the statement? Another attempt to blame someone else for his problems.
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Report Abuse 1 4 Zanne May 27, 2011 5:47 AM About 6 hours ago The plot thickens. Shenanigans like this are what give politics a bad name. Seems like all of these people need new careers out of the realm of public service.
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Report Abuse 0 2 Rick J. May 27, 2011 6:03 AM About 5 hours ago As a Black native of Tampa, the White Family are known in the Black community as liars, cheats and petty crooks. Kevin White
is no different, he set-up Renee Lee by asking her to come to
innocent lunch, show the text messages to Patrick Mantegia,
informed Mantegia of the date and location of the lunch date
and asked him to come by to witness the lunch. Now, Kevin White
is lying in depositions stated that Ms. Lee continually gave
him legal advice regarding the BOCC suit against him. Kevin
White that lied about him using campaign money to buy tailor
made suits which he was fined by the Florida Elections office.
Kevin White lied on C.Btyle Andrews regarding White's harrassment of his BOCC aide which White was found guilty.
Before the Hillsborough BOCC SHOULD LOOK AT ALL THE FACTS
AND CHARACTER OF WHITE BEFORE PERSONNEL DECISION. CLASSIC SET-UP, BUT, LEE NEED TO STOP GETTING INTO BS, WHEN YOUR NAME KEEP
COMING UP IN BS, PEOPLE LOOK AT YOU IN A BAD LIGHT.
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Report Abuse 0 3 WhereisJohnGalt May 27, 2011 7:38 AM About 4 hours ago She is at the very least, guilty of stupidity to the extreme. Reply
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JaneCastorLies May 27, 2011 11:45 AM Less than a minute ago rickj. luckily we white folks don't group all blacks together... grow up. and stop being such a racist hater .. everyone knows you are erikkk deggggans.
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Report Abuse gwm56 May 27, 2011 7:38 AM About 4 hours ago Kevin White will keep playing the HCC and the prosecutors office for the suckers they are, he knows they will not prosecute him because of his race and he will flaunt it in their face as his petty form of retaliation. He used Ms Lee on the basis of race (help a brother out) and he ●●●● all over her (serves her right). Come on Black community, is he getting over on the man, by the way, YOU are the man.
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Report Abuse 0 2 jezjames92 May 27, 2011 7:49 AM About 4 hours ago Lee is, at the very least, ethically challenged if not misusing her public office.
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Report Abuse 0 3 Censorshipsucks May 27, 2011 7:55 AM About 4 hours ago White is the biggest piece of s**t Tampa has ever seen.
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JaneCastorLies May 27, 2011 11:44 AM Less than a minute ago kevin white is in on the action of drugs. Don't forget he's former and corrupt TPD AND ROOMS TO GO stuff a little in the furniture and drop it off where every other security person is in fedearal prison BUT kevin. And patrick's name shows up too many places where tampa citizens are f'd over.
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Report Abuse ididso May 27, 2011 8:44 AM About 3 hours ago An unethical lawyer?
I can't believe it.
What's next?
Will our elected GOP representatives who voted themselves "legal bribes", or our Governor who pled the fifth seventy five times
follow suit?
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Report Abuse 3 0 gwm56 May 27, 2011 9:07 AM About 2 hours ago ididso Hmmm, isn't Kevin White a Democrat? Hahahahahahahah!!!! Idiot.
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Report Abuse 0 2 Mitch May 27, 2011 9:25 AM About 2 hours ago White may be a democrat in name, but he has the character, ethics and morals of a Republican. Idiot. Reply
Report Abuse 3 0 gwm56 May 27, 2011 10:41 AM About 1 hour ago Mitch, But he's a Democrat. Hahahahahahah!!!!! Reply
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JaneCastorLies May 27, 2011 11:44 AM Less than a minute ago Yes he is a TRUE REPUBLICKAN
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Report Abuse Kawliga May 27, 2011 10:04 AM About 1 hour ago It's so sad that he's a colored fella.
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Report Abuse 0 0 BizzaroRealistone May 27, 2011 10:08 AM About 1 hour ago Did they have lunch together, and is that ethical? That is the question here. And the answers are clear.
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Report Abuse 0 0 nocheapshots May 27, 2011 10:25 AM About 1 hour ago Mr. White is quite The Operator. And Mrs. Lee doesn't have much street sense. Mrs. Lee, time to update your resume and apply for a small, out of the way county like Glades County or Dixie County. Your face has a lovely glow, but your career in Hillsborough County is toast.
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Report Abuse 0 0 mattgordonmd May 27, 2011 10:57 AM About 1 hour ago Yikes, Laurato's brother is linked to one of the pill-mill pain clinics that has five deaths on its hands. Going to be fireworks when Kevin White fails to pay this cosigliere's bill.
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JaneCastorLies May 27, 2011 11:42 AM Less than a minute ago mattgordon, that's also the one where the sheriff QUICKLY returned one of what one assumes is several LARGE SUITCASES STUFFED WITH CASH. Don't forget: david gee made over a million dollars last year(reported)
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JaneCastorLies May 27, 2011 11:38 AM Less than a minute ago Man, my opinion of manteiga is slipping like mad. And if he's in cahoots with laurato ... well, there you have it. Laurato should be disbarred. COME ON FLORIDA BAR find a reason and axe his corrupt ●●●.
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TAMPA — Former Hillsborough County Commissioner Kevin White says County Attorney Renee Lee called him to get their stories straight about a controversial April luncheon they had.
And that conversation was overheard by a lawyer when White put the call on speakerphone, said his attorney, Michael Laurato.
Laurato said White made that and several other potentially inflammatory claims during a sworn deposition this week. The deposition was taken as part of a lawsuit in which White and the county are suing each other over who should pay legal bills for his 2009 sexual harassment case.
Commissioners are calling for an explanation from Lee for why she socialized with someone the county is suing. At least two of them believe she has changed her story, as they recall it — first telling them that the April 8 lunch at Roy's restaurant in West Tampa was a chance encounter.
Lee did not return a phone call Thursday seeking comment.
She was already on the hot seat for her role in a secret pay raise she and former County Administrator Pat Bean got. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement also has said that she may have lied about how she came into possession of e-mail files of auditors who unearthed the raises.
Laurato said that during testimony Wednesday, White said Lee had called him when a reporter began asking questions about their get-together. At the time, White happened to be in the office of criminal defense lawyer Ronald Cacciatore.
"Mr. White testified at his deposition … that Ms. Lee called him and he answered the phone on speakerphone," Laurato said. "Ms. Lee said we need to get our story straight about this."
It's not clear why White was meeting with a criminal defense lawyer, and Cacciatore did not return phone calls for comment.
It's also not clear how that call jibes with text messages between the two that Laurato disseminated earlier this week. In one, April 18, sent by Lee after a television news story about the luncheon, Lee says she didn't tell anyone she had "bumped into" White as the broadcast indicated.
"I decided early on that there was no reason to lie," she wrote.
In any event, Laurato claims that the speakerphone call was one of "numerous" conversations between the two since February, or maybe January, that took place by phone or text message. In them, Lee made sympathetic statements about White's plight, Laurato said.
He claims that Lee told his client she didn't understand why the county was pressing its case against White since he has said a ruling against him will force him into bankruptcy, resulting in the county getting nothing. One one occasion, he said, Lee offered her assistance.
"There was a reference that she would try to help out however she could," Laurato said. "This is my paraphrasing of his deposition testimony."
A transcript of White's testimony has not been prepared yet, and it was not possible to verify Laurato's depiction.
White left office in November after getting trounced by two opponents in the Democratic primary when he sought re-election.
A year earlier, a federal civil jury found White sexually harassed former aide Alyssa Ogden by firing her for refusing his sexual advances. The county amassed nearly $500,000 in legal bills, including a $75,000 award to Ogden.
An insurance policy covered a small portion of the costs and commissioners are trying to get White to pay some of the roughly $425,000 balance. White, meanwhile, is suing the county and the insurer to cover about $155,000 in bills from his own attorneys.
The county has retained outside counsel to handle its side of the suit, with lawyer Richard Harrison taking the job for free. He declined to comment about Laurato's depiction of White's statements.
Laurato has blasted the luncheon and conversations, saying it was not proper for the county's top attorney to meet with his client without White's attorney present. That's particularly so since Lee broached the topic of a recent home purchase by White that could be seen as a financial asset relevant to the case.
He said Thursday that he may seek to have Harrison removed from the case because of the possibility that Lee was sharing information with him.
Harrison said he has not talked to Lee about the case, using another lawyer in her office as a point of contact. He said he has no indication that Lee is shaping the direction he has received.
"The feedback from the county has been, 'Go get him,' " Harrison said.
He noted that a transcript of the deposition will offer more relevant testimony, including White's assertion under oath that he didn't sexually harass his aide, despite the jury's ruling.
The story of the luncheon between Lee and White was first reported in a political insider column of the trilingual newsweekly La Gaceta. Owner and column author Patrick Manteiga told the St. Petersburg Times that White showed him text messages from Lee leading up to the luncheon asking about his home purchase and empathizing with him over stories scrutinizing the deal.
He said White asked him, and Manteiga agreed, to swing by the restaurant that day to witness the lunch, saying White didn't understand why the attorney wanted to meet with him.
In addition to running the newspaper, Manteiga is a political consultant and operative who has often defended White against critical stories in other news outlets.
Manteiga says the Times misquoted him acknowledging they had set Lee up.
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CLWPilot May 27, 2011 3:18 AM About 8 hours ago Ms. Lee needs to find new employment.
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Report Abuse 0 2 Just The Facts May 27, 2011 9:49 AM About 2 hours ago Add one more SLEAZE BALL to the mix...PATRICK MANTEGIA!!! Patrick Mantegia is an "OPERATIVE" trying to yeild influence to LIARS like KEVIN WHITE and STACY FRANK! Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 Just The Facts May 27, 2011 9:55 AM About 2 hours ago Oh Yeah! Forgot to mention, Manteiga is a LIAR too! Just look at the quote above "Manteiga says the Times misquoted him acknowledging they had set Lee up." But it's OBVIOUS it was a set up! KEVIN WHITE, STACY FRANK AND PATRICK MANTEIGA ARE ALL LIARS!!! Don't believe a word any of these people have to say, they are all a DISGRACE to the DEMOCRATIC PARTY! Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 nocheapshots May 27, 2011 10:32 AM About 1 hour ago Mr. White is quite The Operator. And Mrs. Lee doesn't have much street sense. Mrs. Lee, time to update your resume and apply for a small, out of the way county like Glades County or Dixie County. Your face has a lovely glow, but your career in Hillsborough County is toast. Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 EddyJ May 27, 2011 3:36 AM About 8 hours ago zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Report Abuse 2 0 somethingtosay May 27, 2011 5:40 AM About 6 hours ago Really? This has gone beyond absurd. Kevin White and his lawyer are sleazy. This is the same lawyer who was arrested recently. If Kevin White has a friend in town after this, shame on them. He is creepy and still a liar. Who is the lawyer that heard this and what is the context of the statement? Another attempt to blame someone else for his problems.
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Report Abuse 1 4 Zanne May 27, 2011 5:47 AM About 6 hours ago The plot thickens. Shenanigans like this are what give politics a bad name. Seems like all of these people need new careers out of the realm of public service.
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Report Abuse 0 2 Rick J. May 27, 2011 6:03 AM About 5 hours ago As a Black native of Tampa, the White Family are known in the Black community as liars, cheats and petty crooks. Kevin White
is no different, he set-up Renee Lee by asking her to come to
innocent lunch, show the text messages to Patrick Mantegia,
informed Mantegia of the date and location of the lunch date
and asked him to come by to witness the lunch. Now, Kevin White
is lying in depositions stated that Ms. Lee continually gave
him legal advice regarding the BOCC suit against him. Kevin
White that lied about him using campaign money to buy tailor
made suits which he was fined by the Florida Elections office.
Kevin White lied on C.Btyle Andrews regarding White's harrassment of his BOCC aide which White was found guilty.
Before the Hillsborough BOCC SHOULD LOOK AT ALL THE FACTS
AND CHARACTER OF WHITE BEFORE PERSONNEL DECISION. CLASSIC SET-UP, BUT, LEE NEED TO STOP GETTING INTO BS, WHEN YOUR NAME KEEP
COMING UP IN BS, PEOPLE LOOK AT YOU IN A BAD LIGHT.
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Report Abuse 0 3 WhereisJohnGalt May 27, 2011 7:38 AM About 4 hours ago She is at the very least, guilty of stupidity to the extreme. Reply
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JaneCastorLies May 27, 2011 11:45 AM Less than a minute ago rickj. luckily we white folks don't group all blacks together... grow up. and stop being such a racist hater .. everyone knows you are erikkk deggggans.
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Report Abuse gwm56 May 27, 2011 7:38 AM About 4 hours ago Kevin White will keep playing the HCC and the prosecutors office for the suckers they are, he knows they will not prosecute him because of his race and he will flaunt it in their face as his petty form of retaliation. He used Ms Lee on the basis of race (help a brother out) and he ●●●● all over her (serves her right). Come on Black community, is he getting over on the man, by the way, YOU are the man.
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Report Abuse 0 2 jezjames92 May 27, 2011 7:49 AM About 4 hours ago Lee is, at the very least, ethically challenged if not misusing her public office.
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Report Abuse 0 3 Censorshipsucks May 27, 2011 7:55 AM About 4 hours ago White is the biggest piece of s**t Tampa has ever seen.
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JaneCastorLies May 27, 2011 11:44 AM Less than a minute ago kevin white is in on the action of drugs. Don't forget he's former and corrupt TPD AND ROOMS TO GO stuff a little in the furniture and drop it off where every other security person is in fedearal prison BUT kevin. And patrick's name shows up too many places where tampa citizens are f'd over.
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Report Abuse ididso May 27, 2011 8:44 AM About 3 hours ago An unethical lawyer?
I can't believe it.
What's next?
Will our elected GOP representatives who voted themselves "legal bribes", or our Governor who pled the fifth seventy five times
follow suit?
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Report Abuse 3 0 gwm56 May 27, 2011 9:07 AM About 2 hours ago ididso Hmmm, isn't Kevin White a Democrat? Hahahahahahahah!!!! Idiot.
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Report Abuse 0 2 Mitch May 27, 2011 9:25 AM About 2 hours ago White may be a democrat in name, but he has the character, ethics and morals of a Republican. Idiot. Reply
Report Abuse 3 0 gwm56 May 27, 2011 10:41 AM About 1 hour ago Mitch, But he's a Democrat. Hahahahahahah!!!!! Reply
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JaneCastorLies May 27, 2011 11:44 AM Less than a minute ago Yes he is a TRUE REPUBLICKAN
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Report Abuse Kawliga May 27, 2011 10:04 AM About 1 hour ago It's so sad that he's a colored fella.
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Report Abuse 0 0 BizzaroRealistone May 27, 2011 10:08 AM About 1 hour ago Did they have lunch together, and is that ethical? That is the question here. And the answers are clear.
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Report Abuse 0 0 nocheapshots May 27, 2011 10:25 AM About 1 hour ago Mr. White is quite The Operator. And Mrs. Lee doesn't have much street sense. Mrs. Lee, time to update your resume and apply for a small, out of the way county like Glades County or Dixie County. Your face has a lovely glow, but your career in Hillsborough County is toast.
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Report Abuse 0 0 mattgordonmd May 27, 2011 10:57 AM About 1 hour ago Yikes, Laurato's brother is linked to one of the pill-mill pain clinics that has five deaths on its hands. Going to be fireworks when Kevin White fails to pay this cosigliere's bill.
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JaneCastorLies May 27, 2011 11:42 AM Less than a minute ago mattgordon, that's also the one where the sheriff QUICKLY returned one of what one assumes is several LARGE SUITCASES STUFFED WITH CASH. Don't forget: david gee made over a million dollars last year(reported)
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JaneCastorLies May 27, 2011 11:38 AM Less than a minute ago Man, my opinion of manteiga is slipping like mad. And if he's in cahoots with laurato ... well, there you have it. Laurato should be disbarred. COME ON FLORIDA BAR find a reason and axe his corrupt ●●●.
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Swazikki Davis, center, holds the first teddy bear given to her son Ezekiel Mathis at her Tampa apartment Friday. Davis' boyfriend Damarcus Kirkland-Williams has been charged with first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse in the death of 13-month-old Ezekiel. Davis is surrounded by Jamieca Stewart, left, her mother Mary Davis, second left and Ronald Stewart, right.
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TAMPA — Nine days after a judge ordered a bruised 2-year-old girl into foster care and ordered the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office to immediately check on the safety of her 13-month-old brother, authorities say the little boy was killed by the mother's angry boyfriend.
Damarcus Kirkland-Williams, 21, was charged on Thursday with first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse. Sheriff's deputies say he got angry at the mother of Ezekiel Mathis on Wednesday and intended to throw Ezekiel onto the bed. Instead, the baby struck a dresser.
Kirkland-Williams told investigators he then put the baby in bed on his stomach, according to deputies. The baby would not stop crying, so he intentionally hit him twice on his back, deputies reported.
Ezekiel was the younger brother of a battered 26-month-old girl, Fantasia, who was brought before Hillsborough County Circuit Judge Tracy Sheehan on Monday, May 9.
Sheehan said Fantasia had suffered bruises from head to toe. The mother wouldn't say how it happened, and the child was placed in a foster home.
During the hearing, Sheehan said she discovered that Ezekiel was still living with the mother.
She ordered the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office "in no uncertain terms" to immediately determine whether Ezekiel needed to be taken out of the home, too. She put the order in writing.
Sheehan didn't hear back from the Sheriff's Office. She learned Thursday that Ezekiel had died.
Yyoni Bunkley, 31, sister of the baby's mother, said she was always suspicious of Kirkland-Williams. She said she saw bruises on Fantasia. She could tell the girl was afraid of the boyfriend.
"You can just tell when a child has been abused," Bunkley said. "I don't understand why they would take one child and not the other."
Bunkley said the boyfriend had previously been questioned by the Sheriff's Office after he was observed being aggressive with Fantasia at a park.
"He should have been arrested," Bunkley said.
The suspect told investigators that Ezekiel's mother, 21-year-old Swazikki Davis, was not present when he threw and struck Ezekiel on Wednesday. He said he found the child unresponsive around 11:30 p.m..
Davis said she was in the bathroom at the time and heard her boyfriend pounding on the door.
She learned Friday from a St. Petersburg Times reporter that he had been charged with murder.
"I can't believe they accused him of murdering my child. This is freaking crazy," she said.
She shook her head and held onto a stuffed toy.
An autopsy of the baby was completed by the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner's Office, which revealed the cause of death to be blunt impact trauma to the head and torso with lacerations to the liver and spleen. Officials ruled the death a homicide.
Kirkland-Williams was held in jail without bail Friday.
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openyoureyes727 May 20, 2011 11:19 AM About 2 hours ago Someone needs to throw him around perhaps off the top of a high rise buiding!
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Report Abuse 1 7 SuperStroke May 20, 2011 12:29 PM About 1 hour ago At least he didn't shoot the baby. His cousin probably has the gun. We'll read about him tomorrow. Reply
Report Abuse 2 2 loveourchildren May 20, 2011 11:32 AM About 2 hours ago This story brought tears to my eyes. How can you hurt a child like that? I hug and kiss my kids constantly - she they can be annoying and whining but never has it ever crossed my mind to physically harm them.
Kids cry, scream, whine, spill things, break things, have potty accidents, the list goes on and yes it gets on your nerves but don't beat them. Walk away for a minute to gather your thoughts, call a friend/neighbor to come over don't loose control.
Rest in peace little angel. I can't wait to get out of work to hug my children.
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Report Abuse 0 11 LOL Al May 20, 2011 11:32 AM About 2 hours ago I don't understand the whole mentality of beating one's own children to death. Must be a cultural thang.
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Report Abuse 4 5 truth_hurts May 20, 2011 12:11 PM About 1 hour ago this aint no cultural thang. white, black, asian, every culture has scumbags like this. he should be fixed like a dog so he cant have any children and should be beaten with the same injuries he gave the defenseless child and left alone in a room leaving his fate in the hands of whatever god he prays to. i would be the first in line to do the job. Reply
Report Abuse 0 7 DeathMetal May 20, 2011 11:53 AM About 2 hours ago Oh my... this is horrible.
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Report Abuse 0 3 Havok May 20, 2011 12:00 PM About 1 hour ago I hope and pray some inmate justice will prevent us from paying for this "person" while he is in prison.
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Report Abuse 1 6 fedup007 May 20, 2011 12:06 PM About 1 hour ago Just another piece of "ghetto" trash, who has no value for human life. Death penalty!! Totally a premediated murder.
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Report Abuse 1 8 Censorshipsucks May 20, 2011 12:08 PM About 1 hour ago Sad story, may justice prevail @ sentencing and my the family have peace.
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Report Abuse 0 5 lvnthedream May 20, 2011 12:12 PM About 1 hour ago Poor child. RIP. I hope the monster who did this to the child is never permitted within a mile of another child.
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Report Abuse 0 3 seminolebuck1 May 20, 2011 12:14 PM About 1 hour ago Damarcus Kirkland-Williams?
hhhmmnnn....wonder what color he is?
good luck at Raiford jack off. better pack your KY jelly. You about to be a lot of big black guys new b*tch!
can you say "squeal" Damarcus?
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Report Abuse 4 3 yachtharbor May 20, 2011 12:27 PM About 1 hour ago This mother is an idiot too. And the mother stated "I can't believe they accused him of murdering my child. This is freaking crazy,". Another irresponsible "getto" momma watching out for her "man" rather than the welfare of her child. And another single mom with no father in sight. One has to wonder how certain segments of society justify the actions of THUGS.
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Report Abuse 1 11 truth_hurts May 20, 2011 12:35 PM About 1 hour ago now she gonna have to find another baby daddy so she can start gettin those checks again. probably already workin on another one. Reply
Report Abuse 2 5 marcos May 20, 2011 12:31 PM About 1 hour ago With no actual regard for the poor child this idiot mother stands up for the scum that murdered the boy...terrible
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Report Abuse 0 6 energybeast May 20, 2011 12:42 PM About 1 hour ago They should arrest these stupid mothers who leave their child with anyone and everyone.. How could you not hear your baby strike a dresser and then cry and all of a sudden stop crying. HCSO one more pick up pls
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Report Abuse 0 3 727gal May 20, 2011 12:48 PM About 1 hour ago The mother must be one of stupid bicht.she should be put away in jail also as she wasnt paying really attention to her child.
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Report Abuse 1 3 J_S May 20, 2011 12:54 PM About 1 hour ago This is complete BS! How the hell does anyone muster up enough "balls" to abuse a defense-less infant. I agree with Seminolebuck1, "good luck at raiford, jack off".. Let's see how much he likes it when Bubba and his buddies toss him around and whoop his @ss knowing he's a baby murderer. I've never been to prison but I hear the ones who abuse children, pray their @sses off to be locked up in confinement. Hope the guards are smart enough to keep this ●●●●●●● in general population.
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Report Abuse 0 2 mayor of moronia May 20, 2011 1:10 PM About 26 minutes ago Better yet, why didnt HCSO go check on the baby like the judge ordered them to do? Prolly busy bustin folks for seat belts. HCSO: OBSERVE AND COLLECT.
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Report Abuse 0 0 tt May 20, 2011 1:24 PM About 12 minutes ago Or for smoking pot Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 JaneCastorLies May 20, 2011 1:35 PM About 1 minute ago or for abusing children THROUGH FALSE REPORTS. I'd certainly like to compare this to a family's experience at the hands of FALSE REPORTERS. MORE VISITS THAN I HAVE MADE TO THE BATHROOM>>> TWICE A DAY OVER AND OVER AGAIN FOR TWO MONTHS. After the family provided PROOF OF FALSE REPORTS. The sheriff should NOT HAVE this responsibility he is using it to PUNISH PEOPLE NOT TO PROTECT CHILDREN. He is using it in vendetta fashion. SUE HIM. Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 LisaH May 20, 2011 1:10 PM About 26 minutes ago She should be in there with him.
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Report Abuse 0 1 GrimReaper May 20, 2011 1:16 PM About 20 minutes ago Sick peice of garbarge
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Report Abuse 0 1 JaneCastorLies May 20, 2011 1:33 PM About 3 minutes ago do they live on wishart?? right by the firemen who live there by the droves? I saw four or five sheriff cars there the other evening which is very weird as it is city ... Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 tt May 20, 2011 1:23 PM About 13 minutes ago I have a new .45 I'd like to neuter them both with. This makes me sick.
By John Barry and Ileana Morales, Times Staff Writers
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Swazikki Davis, center, holds the first teddy bear given to her son Ezekiel Mathis at her Tampa apartment Friday. Davis' boyfriend Damarcus Kirkland-Williams has been charged with first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse in the death of 13-month-old Ezekiel. Davis is surrounded by Jamieca Stewart, left, her mother Mary Davis, second left and Ronald Stewart, right.
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Damarcus Kirkland-Williams, 21, is charged with first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse after beating to death his girlfriend's 13-month-old baby boy.
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TAMPA — Nine days after a judge ordered a bruised 2-year-old girl into foster care and ordered the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office to immediately check on the safety of her 13-month-old brother, authorities say the little boy was killed by the mother's angry boyfriend.
Damarcus Kirkland-Williams, 21, was charged on Thursday with first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse. Sheriff's deputies say he got angry at the mother of Ezekiel Mathis on Wednesday and intended to throw Ezekiel onto the bed. Instead, the baby struck a dresser.
Kirkland-Williams told investigators he then put the baby in bed on his stomach, according to deputies. The baby would not stop crying, so he intentionally hit him twice on his back, deputies reported.
Ezekiel was the younger brother of a battered 26-month-old girl, Fantasia, who was brought before Hillsborough County Circuit Judge Tracy Sheehan on Monday, May 9.
Sheehan said Fantasia had suffered bruises from head to toe. The mother wouldn't say how it happened, and the child was placed in a foster home.
During the hearing, Sheehan said she discovered that Ezekiel was still living with the mother.
She ordered the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office "in no uncertain terms" to immediately determine whether Ezekiel needed to be taken out of the home, too. She put the order in writing.
Sheehan didn't hear back from the Sheriff's Office. She learned Thursday that Ezekiel had died.
Yyoni Bunkley, 31, sister of the baby's mother, said she was always suspicious of Kirkland-Williams. She said she saw bruises on Fantasia. She could tell the girl was afraid of the boyfriend.
"You can just tell when a child has been abused," Bunkley said. "I don't understand why they would take one child and not the other."
Bunkley said the boyfriend had previously been questioned by the Sheriff's Office after he was observed being aggressive with Fantasia at a park.
"He should have been arrested," Bunkley said.
The suspect told investigators that Ezekiel's mother, 21-year-old Swazikki Davis, was not present when he threw and struck Ezekiel on Wednesday. He said he found the child unresponsive around 11:30 p.m..
Davis said she was in the bathroom at the time and heard her boyfriend pounding on the door.
She learned Friday from a St. Petersburg Times reporter that he had been charged with murder.
"I can't believe they accused him of murdering my child. This is freaking crazy," she said.
She shook her head and held onto a stuffed toy.
An autopsy of the baby was completed by the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner's Office, which revealed the cause of death to be blunt impact trauma to the head and torso with lacerations to the liver and spleen. Officials ruled the death a homicide.
Kirkland-Williams was held in jail without bail Friday.
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openyoureyes727 May 20, 2011 11:19 AM About 2 hours ago Someone needs to throw him around perhaps off the top of a high rise buiding!
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Report Abuse 1 7 SuperStroke May 20, 2011 12:29 PM About 1 hour ago At least he didn't shoot the baby. His cousin probably has the gun. We'll read about him tomorrow. Reply
Report Abuse 2 2 loveourchildren May 20, 2011 11:32 AM About 2 hours ago This story brought tears to my eyes. How can you hurt a child like that? I hug and kiss my kids constantly - she they can be annoying and whining but never has it ever crossed my mind to physically harm them.
Kids cry, scream, whine, spill things, break things, have potty accidents, the list goes on and yes it gets on your nerves but don't beat them. Walk away for a minute to gather your thoughts, call a friend/neighbor to come over don't loose control.
Rest in peace little angel. I can't wait to get out of work to hug my children.
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Report Abuse 0 11 LOL Al May 20, 2011 11:32 AM About 2 hours ago I don't understand the whole mentality of beating one's own children to death. Must be a cultural thang.
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Report Abuse 4 5 truth_hurts May 20, 2011 12:11 PM About 1 hour ago this aint no cultural thang. white, black, asian, every culture has scumbags like this. he should be fixed like a dog so he cant have any children and should be beaten with the same injuries he gave the defenseless child and left alone in a room leaving his fate in the hands of whatever god he prays to. i would be the first in line to do the job. Reply
Report Abuse 0 7 DeathMetal May 20, 2011 11:53 AM About 2 hours ago Oh my... this is horrible.
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Report Abuse 0 3 Havok May 20, 2011 12:00 PM About 1 hour ago I hope and pray some inmate justice will prevent us from paying for this "person" while he is in prison.
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Report Abuse 1 6 fedup007 May 20, 2011 12:06 PM About 1 hour ago Just another piece of "ghetto" trash, who has no value for human life. Death penalty!! Totally a premediated murder.
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Report Abuse 1 8 Censorshipsucks May 20, 2011 12:08 PM About 1 hour ago Sad story, may justice prevail @ sentencing and my the family have peace.
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Report Abuse 0 5 lvnthedream May 20, 2011 12:12 PM About 1 hour ago Poor child. RIP. I hope the monster who did this to the child is never permitted within a mile of another child.
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Report Abuse 0 3 seminolebuck1 May 20, 2011 12:14 PM About 1 hour ago Damarcus Kirkland-Williams?
hhhmmnnn....wonder what color he is?
good luck at Raiford jack off. better pack your KY jelly. You about to be a lot of big black guys new b*tch!
can you say "squeal" Damarcus?
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Report Abuse 4 3 yachtharbor May 20, 2011 12:27 PM About 1 hour ago This mother is an idiot too. And the mother stated "I can't believe they accused him of murdering my child. This is freaking crazy,". Another irresponsible "getto" momma watching out for her "man" rather than the welfare of her child. And another single mom with no father in sight. One has to wonder how certain segments of society justify the actions of THUGS.
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Report Abuse 1 11 truth_hurts May 20, 2011 12:35 PM About 1 hour ago now she gonna have to find another baby daddy so she can start gettin those checks again. probably already workin on another one. Reply
Report Abuse 2 5 marcos May 20, 2011 12:31 PM About 1 hour ago With no actual regard for the poor child this idiot mother stands up for the scum that murdered the boy...terrible
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Report Abuse 0 6 energybeast May 20, 2011 12:42 PM About 1 hour ago They should arrest these stupid mothers who leave their child with anyone and everyone.. How could you not hear your baby strike a dresser and then cry and all of a sudden stop crying. HCSO one more pick up pls
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Report Abuse 0 3 727gal May 20, 2011 12:48 PM About 1 hour ago The mother must be one of stupid bicht.she should be put away in jail also as she wasnt paying really attention to her child.
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Report Abuse 1 3 J_S May 20, 2011 12:54 PM About 1 hour ago This is complete BS! How the hell does anyone muster up enough "balls" to abuse a defense-less infant. I agree with Seminolebuck1, "good luck at raiford, jack off".. Let's see how much he likes it when Bubba and his buddies toss him around and whoop his @ss knowing he's a baby murderer. I've never been to prison but I hear the ones who abuse children, pray their @sses off to be locked up in confinement. Hope the guards are smart enough to keep this ●●●●●●● in general population.
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Report Abuse 0 2 mayor of moronia May 20, 2011 1:10 PM About 26 minutes ago Better yet, why didnt HCSO go check on the baby like the judge ordered them to do? Prolly busy bustin folks for seat belts. HCSO: OBSERVE AND COLLECT.
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Report Abuse 0 0 tt May 20, 2011 1:24 PM About 12 minutes ago Or for smoking pot Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 JaneCastorLies May 20, 2011 1:35 PM About 1 minute ago or for abusing children THROUGH FALSE REPORTS. I'd certainly like to compare this to a family's experience at the hands of FALSE REPORTERS. MORE VISITS THAN I HAVE MADE TO THE BATHROOM>>> TWICE A DAY OVER AND OVER AGAIN FOR TWO MONTHS. After the family provided PROOF OF FALSE REPORTS. The sheriff should NOT HAVE this responsibility he is using it to PUNISH PEOPLE NOT TO PROTECT CHILDREN. He is using it in vendetta fashion. SUE HIM. Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 LisaH May 20, 2011 1:10 PM About 26 minutes ago She should be in there with him.
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Report Abuse 0 1 GrimReaper May 20, 2011 1:16 PM About 20 minutes ago Sick peice of garbarge
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Report Abuse 0 1 JaneCastorLies May 20, 2011 1:33 PM About 3 minutes ago do they live on wishart?? right by the firemen who live there by the droves? I saw four or five sheriff cars there the other evening which is very weird as it is city ... Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 tt May 20, 2011 1:23 PM About 13 minutes ago I have a new .45 I'd like to neuter them both with. This makes me sick.
For Tampa Police A O EVANS aka Miss Poopy Pants stripper
so, were you giving him head or hiding???? cunt I have nice video of you racing by as well. Your ass is going to end up fired. You're a piece of shit and should NOT be a cop or even a stripper. You should be fucking locked up somewhere
Hillsborough CLERK OF COURT AND JANE CASTOR DESTROYING LIVES
hree top Hillsborough clerk of courts workers lose jobs in reorganization
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Three high-level employees left the Hillsborough County clerk of courts office Thursday in what its top official is calling a reorganization.
The departures had nothing to do with an ongoing investigation of ticket-handling irregularities in her office, Clerk of the Circuit Court Pat Frank said Friday.
"Absolutely not," Frank added. "There's no connection at all."
One of the employees resigned, while the other two departed after their positions were eliminated. Frank said it was all related to a legislatively mandated technology overhaul of her office, and addressed a need to get people in place who were able to implement it. In each case, Frank said she did not think the people she had in place could do that.
Frank said she accepted the resignation of Carla Snavely, deputy clerk for court operations, on Thursday. Darlene Leavines, director of quality assurance, and Associate Courts Director Janet Ritchie were told their jobs were being eliminated.
Frank said their duties are being turned over to other employees, some of whom have been elevated by a broader reorganization. The moves also will shave just more than $300,000 in spending that was necessitated by state spending cuts.
Frank said the moves had been contemplated for some time, noting that she had ongoing talks with Snavely about whether she could oversee the technology overhaul aimed at making the courthouse operations paperless while handling existing duties. Frank indicated that Snavely expressed doubt that she could.
"It's a massive undertaking," Frank, an 81-year-old Democrat who is elected to office, said of the technology overhaul.
Leavines and Ritchie had been working together to fulfill state reporting requirements that help determine how much money the legislature allocates to Frank's office. They were not able to perform the task, so their duties were turned over to information technology workers in her office, Frank said.
The ticket-fixing investigation began last year after the clerk's office discovered that three of its clerks colluded to help one skip a court appearance, according to records.
Internal investigative documents released this week show Frank's office pressured the clerks to quit and started looking at e-mails from Luis Salas-Farfan, a traffic department clerk who resigned in February.
As part of that review, eight other clerks were suspended. As of Tuesday, six of them had resigned and two others are appealing their termination recommendations.
Salas-Farfan took money from co-workers to pay lawyers to take care of traffic tickets, the documents show. But in many of the cases, it appears no lawyer ever showed up, though the citations were dismissed.
In at least one instance, a hearing officer wrote, Salas-Farfan manipulated the tracking system to get a ticket dismissed.
Salas-Farfan admitted he shouldn't have offered favors to co-workers on county time, notably by connecting them with lawyers he knew. But he denied receiving anything in return. Any money he received went straight to lawyers, he said.
It's not clear from the records what happened to the money paid to Salas-Farfan, which ranged from $100 to $200 per infraction. Frank said the sheriff's investigation would likely explain that.
Bill Varian can be reached at varian@sptimes.com or (813) 226-3387.
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Classical May 20, 2011 1:14 PM About 1 minute ago Is the St. Pete Times camping out at the Clerk's office these days? Seems like they're in the news every day now.
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JaneCastorLies May 20, 2011 1:16 PM Less than a minute ago they need to be. They also need to investigate what a Tampa Mason named Brian with star tattoos and a full white beard and a big pot belly is doing intimidating other court clerks. How many lives has HE DESTROYED???? I have his tag numbers and am in the process of getting his home address and full background.
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JaneCastorLies May 20, 2011 1:17 PM Less than a minute ago How many lives were destroyed by hustling some things through the system but not others? HOW MANY LIVES???? my license has been suspended EIGHT TIMES IN "ERROR". WTF? A pristine license marred by this CORRUPTION. FIND OUT.
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JaneCastorLies May 20, 2011 1:20 PM Less than a minute ago Arrests. Make some arrests. They threatened to arrest me once for driving on a suspended license ... HAD NO IDEA. It was suspended for THREE DAYS when the corrupt cop did a u-turn on bayshore to get behind me and tell his lies. Had they been a little more patient with their corruption and filth I would not have caught on. As it happens he also lied about that. It must be suspended for 30 days but he/they could not wait to start intimidating and threatening. This is highly illegal. I have all his information, as well. He had THE NERVE to show up in court as I proved he was wrong and also stated my documents looked fraudulent. WHAT A PIG. He was the one WITH FRAUDULENT DOCUMENTS. MINE CAME FROM THE DMV NOT FROM A CROOKED COURT CLERK.
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JaneCastorLies May 20, 2011 1:22 PM Less than a minute ago This is the tip of the iceberg. Find out which ones are tampa masons and find out which one is brian the tampa mason. You can spot them by their weird facial hair and that is not a joke, it is the truth. Just look around downtown and spot them. They are behind the scenes controlling EVERYTHING that the latin king judges are not.
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JaneCastorLies May 20, 2011 1:24 PM Less than a minute ago he lives in port tampa. his other vehicle has a bumper sticker supporting fairtax.org. the very crookedest idea ever. When I went dt to vote he managed to drive right beside me with his dick greco sticker in the window of his iak (part of his tag) vehicle a white one ... it is now removed as the next week he was at publix stalking me again at which time I informed him I knew of his connection to the corruption in the clerk's office. He ran. RAN. RAN.
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JaneCastorLies May 20, 2011 1:27 PM Less than a minute ago And I'm putting it on youtube. Just wait, Brian. We'll see who is afraid of who. Keep your creeps and your corrupt clerks OFF OF MY FAMILY you disgust me
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Three high-level employees left the Hillsborough County clerk of courts office Thursday in what its top official is calling a reorganization.
The departures had nothing to do with an ongoing investigation of ticket-handling irregularities in her office, Clerk of the Circuit Court Pat Frank said Friday.
"Absolutely not," Frank added. "There's no connection at all."
One of the employees resigned, while the other two departed after their positions were eliminated. Frank said it was all related to a legislatively mandated technology overhaul of her office, and addressed a need to get people in place who were able to implement it. In each case, Frank said she did not think the people she had in place could do that.
Frank said she accepted the resignation of Carla Snavely, deputy clerk for court operations, on Thursday. Darlene Leavines, director of quality assurance, and Associate Courts Director Janet Ritchie were told their jobs were being eliminated.
Frank said their duties are being turned over to other employees, some of whom have been elevated by a broader reorganization. The moves also will shave just more than $300,000 in spending that was necessitated by state spending cuts.
Frank said the moves had been contemplated for some time, noting that she had ongoing talks with Snavely about whether she could oversee the technology overhaul aimed at making the courthouse operations paperless while handling existing duties. Frank indicated that Snavely expressed doubt that she could.
"It's a massive undertaking," Frank, an 81-year-old Democrat who is elected to office, said of the technology overhaul.
Leavines and Ritchie had been working together to fulfill state reporting requirements that help determine how much money the legislature allocates to Frank's office. They were not able to perform the task, so their duties were turned over to information technology workers in her office, Frank said.
The ticket-fixing investigation began last year after the clerk's office discovered that three of its clerks colluded to help one skip a court appearance, according to records.
Internal investigative documents released this week show Frank's office pressured the clerks to quit and started looking at e-mails from Luis Salas-Farfan, a traffic department clerk who resigned in February.
As part of that review, eight other clerks were suspended. As of Tuesday, six of them had resigned and two others are appealing their termination recommendations.
Salas-Farfan took money from co-workers to pay lawyers to take care of traffic tickets, the documents show. But in many of the cases, it appears no lawyer ever showed up, though the citations were dismissed.
In at least one instance, a hearing officer wrote, Salas-Farfan manipulated the tracking system to get a ticket dismissed.
Salas-Farfan admitted he shouldn't have offered favors to co-workers on county time, notably by connecting them with lawyers he knew. But he denied receiving anything in return. Any money he received went straight to lawyers, he said.
It's not clear from the records what happened to the money paid to Salas-Farfan, which ranged from $100 to $200 per infraction. Frank said the sheriff's investigation would likely explain that.
Bill Varian can be reached at varian@sptimes.com or (813) 226-3387.
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Classical May 20, 2011 1:14 PM About 1 minute ago Is the St. Pete Times camping out at the Clerk's office these days? Seems like they're in the news every day now.
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JaneCastorLies May 20, 2011 1:16 PM Less than a minute ago they need to be. They also need to investigate what a Tampa Mason named Brian with star tattoos and a full white beard and a big pot belly is doing intimidating other court clerks. How many lives has HE DESTROYED???? I have his tag numbers and am in the process of getting his home address and full background.
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JaneCastorLies May 20, 2011 1:17 PM Less than a minute ago How many lives were destroyed by hustling some things through the system but not others? HOW MANY LIVES???? my license has been suspended EIGHT TIMES IN "ERROR". WTF? A pristine license marred by this CORRUPTION. FIND OUT.
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JaneCastorLies May 20, 2011 1:20 PM Less than a minute ago Arrests. Make some arrests. They threatened to arrest me once for driving on a suspended license ... HAD NO IDEA. It was suspended for THREE DAYS when the corrupt cop did a u-turn on bayshore to get behind me and tell his lies. Had they been a little more patient with their corruption and filth I would not have caught on. As it happens he also lied about that. It must be suspended for 30 days but he/they could not wait to start intimidating and threatening. This is highly illegal. I have all his information, as well. He had THE NERVE to show up in court as I proved he was wrong and also stated my documents looked fraudulent. WHAT A PIG. He was the one WITH FRAUDULENT DOCUMENTS. MINE CAME FROM THE DMV NOT FROM A CROOKED COURT CLERK.
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JaneCastorLies May 20, 2011 1:22 PM Less than a minute ago This is the tip of the iceberg. Find out which ones are tampa masons and find out which one is brian the tampa mason. You can spot them by their weird facial hair and that is not a joke, it is the truth. Just look around downtown and spot them. They are behind the scenes controlling EVERYTHING that the latin king judges are not.
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JaneCastorLies May 20, 2011 1:24 PM Less than a minute ago he lives in port tampa. his other vehicle has a bumper sticker supporting fairtax.org. the very crookedest idea ever. When I went dt to vote he managed to drive right beside me with his dick greco sticker in the window of his iak (part of his tag) vehicle a white one ... it is now removed as the next week he was at publix stalking me again at which time I informed him I knew of his connection to the corruption in the clerk's office. He ran. RAN. RAN.
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JaneCastorLies May 20, 2011 1:27 PM Less than a minute ago And I'm putting it on youtube. Just wait, Brian. We'll see who is afraid of who. Keep your creeps and your corrupt clerks OFF OF MY FAMILY you disgust me
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Jane Castor's corrupt pig cops
Native Floridian May 17, 2011 3:20 PM About 2 days ago Where are the criminal charges, removal of benefits payouts for sick and vacation leave and forfieture of their pensions as per the law for "crimes committed as part of thier employment".
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Report Abuse 0 10 elainec May 17, 2011 4:05 PM About 2 days ago Payback of unemployment benefits should be mandatory too. Reply
Report Abuse 0 5 I C clearly May 17, 2011 7:27 PM About 2 days ago All nice common sounding American names. Reply
Report Abuse 0 2 KDJ May 17, 2011 3:20 PM About 2 days ago What's the problem? They just cut out the middle-man. Finally, efficiency in Government
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Report Abuse 2 6 username1991 May 17, 2011 3:22 PM About 2 days ago all the employees were just mimicking the shenanigans of higher ups. they just weren't as clever or discreet or powerful. the buck stops at the front line employees. sargent shultz management knew nothing aka innocent of poor management.
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Report Abuse 2 6 buckeyes May 17, 2011 3:26 PM About 2 days ago How Do I get a Job like that?
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Report Abuse 0 5 jezjames92 May 17, 2011 3:35 PM About 2 days ago Pull the court records. Were any hearing officers, lawyers or judges involved? Did other Clerk's office staff know? Who was supervising?
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Report Abuse 0 5 BizzaroRealistone May 17, 2011 3:45 PM About 2 days ago Wow, Pat sure is hands on isn't she?
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Report Abuse 1 2 JuanMoTime May 17, 2011 4:02 PM About 2 days ago "It's not clear what happened to the several fees paid to Salsas-Farfan, ranging from $100 to $200 each."
What are you... retarded? Three guesses as to happened to the money. Duh...
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Report Abuse 3 4 EinT May 17, 2011 4:03 PM About 2 days ago This is small time and with everything going on int he owrld today, I can't believe it even ended up in the paper.
But I can guarantee there would be plenty of righteous indignation and calls for the Clerk's resignation if she were a republican.
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Report Abuse 3 2 Mitch May 17, 2011 4:15 PM About 2 days ago Your intellectual ability is showing again. Try switching of Fox and read a book on ethics or something like that. There are no small time crimes, especially in government. And BTW,Pat Frank is among the better politicians in this state. She is genuine. Reply
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JaneCastorLies May 19, 2011 10:07 PM Less than a minute ago What the f EinT? How is this SMALL TIME WHEN IT AFFECTS PEOPLES' ability to drive, control their time and be licensed? You're as stupid as every other newly minted republican.
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Report Abuse JuanMoTime May 17, 2011 4:03 PM About 2 days ago This stuff used to happen in Maryland... in the 1950-1960s.
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Report Abuse 3 2 Stu May 17, 2011 6:35 PM About 2 days ago Corruption in Maryland ain't dead yet, not by a long shot. http://www.newsline.umd.edu/blog/index.php/category/crime-justice/prince-georges-county-corruption/ Good try on the put-down, trying to imply we're 50-60 years behind the times, but no, seems we are keeping up with other states in the corruption race. Even your old stomping grounds. Reply
Report Abuse 0 1 elainec May 17, 2011 4:06 PM About 2 days ago This surprises no one.
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Report Abuse 0 4 sevo May 17, 2011 4:40 PM About 2 days ago Wow! Juanmorturd admits that this type of activity happens in other states than Florida. What, did you finally graduate from 4th grade, Juan?
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Report Abuse 0 4 TimfromIndiana May 17, 2011 5:26 PM About 2 days ago A thorough audit is called for along with new guidelines to ensure this cannot happen again without 3-4 people being involved. Then the risk wouldn't be worth the reward and these workers may concentrate on doing the job which they were hired to do instead of finding ways to steal from taxpayers coffers. They'll justify it to themselves though. I hope they enjoy cutting grass for the summer. Who will hire a known thief? Not I.
No, they don't have to be convicted in court. They resigned because they're guilty. No other reason to leave a solid job when so many would kill for it.
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Report Abuse 0 2 buccy May 17, 2011 6:44 PM About 2 days ago Judging by the names , my question is are there any Americans working for the county ?
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Report Abuse 0 5 Gov_Tilt_Head May 17, 2011 6:49 PM About 2 days ago buzy: THEY ARE AMERICANS YOU DIMWIT! Reply
Report Abuse 2 1 ImBack May 17, 2011 6:59 PM About 2 days ago First generation, if that, Gov_Sh*t_Head. Reply
Report Abuse 0 2 Gov_Tilt_Head May 17, 2011 7:12 PM About 2 days ago How dare you call Gov Skeletor a sh!thead! Reply
Report Abuse 1 1 Gov_Tilt_Head May 17, 2011 7:19 PM About 2 days ago imbacward: First generation or naturalized citizen, it does NOT make a difference! I can see you're one of those "American exceptionalism" fanboys. Reply
Report Abuse 2 0 deemarie May 18, 2011 7:35 AM Yesterday I deal with the clerk's office every day. The level of incomptence is shocking. There are clerks who sit in court rooms every day who can't even speak correctly. The joke in my area is that you have to fail a test to be employed by the Clerk. You are all right, there are very few anglo's employed by the clerk. The office is the United Nations of public service and the office suffers because of it. You need to speak and be able to write English correctly if you are going to document court proceedings. The office is very clannish and is ripe for corruption. If there were investigations in other divisions, I would guess there are similar problems all the way around. Clerks have unchecked power and use it ALL the time to their own benefit.
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JaneCastorLies May 19, 2011 9:53 PM Less than a minute ago Wow, when my cousin's ticket was dismissed there were still court costs BUT it was unknown as she did not go to court, just her attorney. They suspended her license THE DAY it went 30 days unpaid. So the whole rigmarole. Nice that there are so many delgados. Murderers. scumbags and ABOVE THE LAW. That is thanks to latin king judges. WHAT JUDGES? Seriously? Pinning this on ONE GUY? And his story just rolls on and on .. he knows it might look bad... (LOL) tix get dismissed every day. Reallly? WHEN will he and Lambo get arrested? She has the morals of a slug.
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JaneCastorLies May 19, 2011 9:55 PM Less than a minute ago it didn't used to be that way, deemarie. That happened under pam iorio and jeb666. As well, there is a Tampa Mason named Brian, he has lots of star and other astronomical tattoos, real old like he has been a merchant marine, maybe. He is a bud of dick greco, a big time stalker and keeps AT LEAST one court clerk in his pocket. Probably a fellow mason. they should be required to reveal their secret affiliations but this salas guy is just a POS. When will he be arrested?
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JaneCastorLies May 19, 2011 10:01 PM Less than a minute ago And I had to hire an attorney for six bogus tickets I got right in a row from jane castor's pos corrupt monkey cops. All thrown out. License pristine as ALWAYS ... one in a school zone. Fat ●●● officer Fleites or however he spells it as is similar to this hyphenated freak ... he also did not throw my tickets out even though they were FRAUDULENT. I had to pay a REAL attorney for that. Never had a ticket in my life and then Jane thought I should be quiet. Screw OFF jane.
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JaneCastorLies May 19, 2011 10:02 PM Less than a minute ago he spells it differently to hide who he is but his wife spells it the correct way on facebook. HMMMMM
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JaneCastorLies May 19, 2011 10:09 PM Less than a minute ago next up an audit of the parking dept to find out how those inbred yokels managed to get their jobs and how dottie roberts or mason or wetterer was able to get away with three homestead exemptions AND become a city parking manager? Except for the ladies who take the money in fort brooks THEY ARE GEMS.
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Report Abuse 0 10 elainec May 17, 2011 4:05 PM About 2 days ago Payback of unemployment benefits should be mandatory too. Reply
Report Abuse 0 5 I C clearly May 17, 2011 7:27 PM About 2 days ago All nice common sounding American names. Reply
Report Abuse 0 2 KDJ May 17, 2011 3:20 PM About 2 days ago What's the problem? They just cut out the middle-man. Finally, efficiency in Government
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Report Abuse 2 6 username1991 May 17, 2011 3:22 PM About 2 days ago all the employees were just mimicking the shenanigans of higher ups. they just weren't as clever or discreet or powerful. the buck stops at the front line employees. sargent shultz management knew nothing aka innocent of poor management.
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Report Abuse 2 6 buckeyes May 17, 2011 3:26 PM About 2 days ago How Do I get a Job like that?
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Report Abuse 0 5 jezjames92 May 17, 2011 3:35 PM About 2 days ago Pull the court records. Were any hearing officers, lawyers or judges involved? Did other Clerk's office staff know? Who was supervising?
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Report Abuse 0 5 BizzaroRealistone May 17, 2011 3:45 PM About 2 days ago Wow, Pat sure is hands on isn't she?
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Report Abuse 1 2 JuanMoTime May 17, 2011 4:02 PM About 2 days ago "It's not clear what happened to the several fees paid to Salsas-Farfan, ranging from $100 to $200 each."
What are you... retarded? Three guesses as to happened to the money. Duh...
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Report Abuse 3 4 EinT May 17, 2011 4:03 PM About 2 days ago This is small time and with everything going on int he owrld today, I can't believe it even ended up in the paper.
But I can guarantee there would be plenty of righteous indignation and calls for the Clerk's resignation if she were a republican.
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Report Abuse 3 2 Mitch May 17, 2011 4:15 PM About 2 days ago Your intellectual ability is showing again. Try switching of Fox and read a book on ethics or something like that. There are no small time crimes, especially in government. And BTW,Pat Frank is among the better politicians in this state. She is genuine. Reply
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JaneCastorLies May 19, 2011 10:07 PM Less than a minute ago What the f EinT? How is this SMALL TIME WHEN IT AFFECTS PEOPLES' ability to drive, control their time and be licensed? You're as stupid as every other newly minted republican.
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Report Abuse JuanMoTime May 17, 2011 4:03 PM About 2 days ago This stuff used to happen in Maryland... in the 1950-1960s.
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Report Abuse 3 2 Stu May 17, 2011 6:35 PM About 2 days ago Corruption in Maryland ain't dead yet, not by a long shot. http://www.newsline.umd.edu/blog/index.php/category/crime-justice/prince-georges-county-corruption/ Good try on the put-down, trying to imply we're 50-60 years behind the times, but no, seems we are keeping up with other states in the corruption race. Even your old stomping grounds. Reply
Report Abuse 0 1 elainec May 17, 2011 4:06 PM About 2 days ago This surprises no one.
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Report Abuse 0 4 sevo May 17, 2011 4:40 PM About 2 days ago Wow! Juanmorturd admits that this type of activity happens in other states than Florida. What, did you finally graduate from 4th grade, Juan?
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Report Abuse 0 4 TimfromIndiana May 17, 2011 5:26 PM About 2 days ago A thorough audit is called for along with new guidelines to ensure this cannot happen again without 3-4 people being involved. Then the risk wouldn't be worth the reward and these workers may concentrate on doing the job which they were hired to do instead of finding ways to steal from taxpayers coffers. They'll justify it to themselves though. I hope they enjoy cutting grass for the summer. Who will hire a known thief? Not I.
No, they don't have to be convicted in court. They resigned because they're guilty. No other reason to leave a solid job when so many would kill for it.
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Report Abuse 0 2 buccy May 17, 2011 6:44 PM About 2 days ago Judging by the names , my question is are there any Americans working for the county ?
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Report Abuse 0 5 Gov_Tilt_Head May 17, 2011 6:49 PM About 2 days ago buzy: THEY ARE AMERICANS YOU DIMWIT! Reply
Report Abuse 2 1 ImBack May 17, 2011 6:59 PM About 2 days ago First generation, if that, Gov_Sh*t_Head. Reply
Report Abuse 0 2 Gov_Tilt_Head May 17, 2011 7:12 PM About 2 days ago How dare you call Gov Skeletor a sh!thead! Reply
Report Abuse 1 1 Gov_Tilt_Head May 17, 2011 7:19 PM About 2 days ago imbacward: First generation or naturalized citizen, it does NOT make a difference! I can see you're one of those "American exceptionalism" fanboys. Reply
Report Abuse 2 0 deemarie May 18, 2011 7:35 AM Yesterday I deal with the clerk's office every day. The level of incomptence is shocking. There are clerks who sit in court rooms every day who can't even speak correctly. The joke in my area is that you have to fail a test to be employed by the Clerk. You are all right, there are very few anglo's employed by the clerk. The office is the United Nations of public service and the office suffers because of it. You need to speak and be able to write English correctly if you are going to document court proceedings. The office is very clannish and is ripe for corruption. If there were investigations in other divisions, I would guess there are similar problems all the way around. Clerks have unchecked power and use it ALL the time to their own benefit.
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JaneCastorLies May 19, 2011 9:53 PM Less than a minute ago Wow, when my cousin's ticket was dismissed there were still court costs BUT it was unknown as she did not go to court, just her attorney. They suspended her license THE DAY it went 30 days unpaid. So the whole rigmarole. Nice that there are so many delgados. Murderers. scumbags and ABOVE THE LAW. That is thanks to latin king judges. WHAT JUDGES? Seriously? Pinning this on ONE GUY? And his story just rolls on and on .. he knows it might look bad... (LOL) tix get dismissed every day. Reallly? WHEN will he and Lambo get arrested? She has the morals of a slug.
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JaneCastorLies May 19, 2011 9:55 PM Less than a minute ago it didn't used to be that way, deemarie. That happened under pam iorio and jeb666. As well, there is a Tampa Mason named Brian, he has lots of star and other astronomical tattoos, real old like he has been a merchant marine, maybe. He is a bud of dick greco, a big time stalker and keeps AT LEAST one court clerk in his pocket. Probably a fellow mason. they should be required to reveal their secret affiliations but this salas guy is just a POS. When will he be arrested?
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JaneCastorLies May 19, 2011 10:01 PM Less than a minute ago And I had to hire an attorney for six bogus tickets I got right in a row from jane castor's pos corrupt monkey cops. All thrown out. License pristine as ALWAYS ... one in a school zone. Fat ●●● officer Fleites or however he spells it as is similar to this hyphenated freak ... he also did not throw my tickets out even though they were FRAUDULENT. I had to pay a REAL attorney for that. Never had a ticket in my life and then Jane thought I should be quiet. Screw OFF jane.
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JaneCastorLies May 19, 2011 10:02 PM Less than a minute ago he spells it differently to hide who he is but his wife spells it the correct way on facebook. HMMMMM
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JaneCastorLies May 19, 2011 10:09 PM Less than a minute ago next up an audit of the parking dept to find out how those inbred yokels managed to get their jobs and how dottie roberts or mason or wetterer was able to get away with three homestead exemptions AND become a city parking manager? Except for the ladies who take the money in fort brooks THEY ARE GEMS.
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