So bumptious Brother-in-law CHARLES EDGAR MULLIGAN is the donee-beneficiary of payroll-padding by corrupt Sheriff DAVID BERNARD SHOAR, who legally changed his name from "HOAR" in 1994.
They might as well rename the Sheriff's office as "The Family Inn."
Or change their family name to CLAMPETT.
These hick hacks resemble "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight."
Their coverups of Officer-Involved Domestic Violence, the homicides of Michelle O'Connell, Andrea Sheldon, et al., and their misfeasance, malfeasance, nonfeasance, waste, fraud, abuse, flummery, dupery and nincompoopery require action from the FBI, and the voters.
Don't vote for anyone who takes money from SHOAR/HOAR, or developers, or defends their works and pomps.
This is the moral issue of our time and place.
Among local public officials, only one -- heroic St. Augustine Mayor Nancy Shaver -- has been wiling to take a stand. The rest require spinal implants, apparently, or election opponents.
Kudos to Historic City News and Michael Gold for breaking this story.
Why is Sheriff hiding the compensation of his brother-in-law?
This week, St Johns County Sheriff David Shoar explained in the press that the job of “public information officer” is not one “where you are out on patrol one day, and the next day … you’re it”. Although, twenty years ago, that’s exactly how his latest retiree, Chuck Mulligan, came into the job.
Now, Shoar reportedly says, as of March 1st, he is going to continue paying the retired commander; this time as an “independent contractor”. His reason is supposedly not just to help out the man whose brother, Pat, is married to Shoar’s sister-in-law, Connie, but Shoar was quoted in The St. Augustine Record saying he needs to bring Mulligan back for “about a year” to train up someone else in the agency to do his job.
St Johns County taxpayers are already paying nearly a half-million-dollars each year for these other St Johns County sheriff’s employees to already be trained:
PRIESTER
JAMES
3/4/1997
COMMUNITY AFFAIRS COORDINATOR
66,147.00
STRAUSBAUGH
MICHAEL
7/17/1990
COMMUNITY AFFAIRS LT
76,133.00
IRWIN
MALINDA
3/22/2004
COMMUNITY AFFAIRS SPECIALIST
43,839.00
BORRA
SHANNON
6/11/2017
CRIME PREVENTION DEPUTY
56,786.00
DOMINGO
RICKY
11/7/1995
CRIME PREVENTION DEPUTY
61,470.00
SUCHY
GREGORY
3/30/1999
CRIME PREVENTION DEPUTY
60,584.00
KELSHAW
KEVIN
11/14/1989
MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICER
66,383.00
SHOAR SPENDING
431,342.00
Charles Edgar Mulligan, who turns 52-years-old in April, completes his 60-month maximum participation as a “DROP Member” in the Florida Retirement System this week. Mulligan was 22-years-old when hired on January 4, 1988. He was paid $85,161.00 a year, plus benefits, as a Commander.
He got there after being overlooked for promotion for twenty-five of his 30-years at the sheriff’s office. Mulligan never advanced above the rank of sergeant until five-years-ago. In 2013, without explanation, Shoar finally gave his extended family member the promotion he had been denied during his entire career under Neil J. Perry.
In the 2012 payroll records, Historic City News verified that Mulligan was only earning $58,903 a year as a Sergeant. Then, in the next budget year, beginning October 1, 2013, Shoar made Mulligan a Commander, kicking his paycheck into overdrive — $81,120.00 per year plus benefits.
“It’s a transition away from full-time law enforcement,” Mulligan said in a quote to local news reporters. “I’ll be in more of a civilian role within the agency.”
That means that when he returns to work on March 1 for the official start date in his new role, he will have traded in his traditional green uniform for civilian clothes.
Surprisingly (?) when Historic City News attempted to obtain the new employee documents that would indicate what, exactly, Mulligan would be doing and what he would be paid, we were clearly asking questions that Shoar would just as soon not explain.
At this time, we are in a back and forth with Public Records Custodian Bonnie Jimmerson. We have made Florida First Amendment Foundation attorney Barbara Petersen aware of the incident. A copy of email between us and Jimmerson has been forward to both Petersen and Special Counsel for Open Government, Patricia R Gleason Esq.
We will produce another segment for this story with more details as this investigation continues.
