Saturday, March 31, 2012

State worker files ethics complaint against Fla. CFO Sink - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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In April, her office announcec that state travel logs chronicling the flightes of state employees on state planes woulf be posted on line by the Floridaw Department ofManagement Services. On Monday, a statd employee filed an ethicw complaintagainst Florida’s chief financialo officer alleging that she misused the state plane. Jose Blas Lorenzi Jr., an attorney who works for the Departmenfof Education, filed the complaint. He said he was by some of the information he has read in news articlexsabout Sink’s use of the plane and did some research of his own.
He figures that since announcing her plans to runfor governor, Sink has rackef up $11,000 in plane travel that's unrelated to her official “I am just concerned, very concerned,” Lorenzo said. “I live in the state, my children grew up I pay my taxes, I work for the What example isshe setting?” he asked. In his Lorenzo claims that on at leastone occasion, Sink flew on the statde plane on the first leg of a flight with a destinatio for a vacation in the He said that on other occasions Sink has used the plane to drop off her Bill McBride, who is an attorney with Barnett Bolt Kirkwooxd Long & McBride in Tampa, or pick up her son.
Sink, a is running for governor. Calls to her office for commenf were notimmediately returned. However, according to published reports, she has ordereed her office to conduct a review of herplanew use. Attorney General Bill McCollum, who is a Republicajn candidatefor governor, was also subject of the joint storiese by the St. Petersburg Timeas and Miami Herald for travel to his home inCentral “McCollum has spent severap personal days campaigning and not used a state that’s indicative of Lorenzo said. A check of campaigbn contributions found that Lorenzo supported Charlid Crist in his runfor governor, donating $200 in 2006 and $150 in 2005.

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