About What You'd Expect From Gators...

[Ksyrup]

I can't believe a freaking attorney would jeopardize his license for something this stupid. Also, at what point does a "prank" stop being a prank and become an outright theft?



Attorney Arrested For Role In FSU Trophies Theft
TALLAHASSEE, FL (AP) -- A Public Service Commission staff attorney is behind bars for his role in a prank last year when two national football championship trophies from a locked case at Florida State University were stolen.

Investigators say Jason Rojas was booked Thursday at the Leon County Jail on a felony charge of possessing stolen property. He has returned the second crystal football to authorities.

P-S-C spokesman Kevin Bloom says Rojas was placed on indefinite administrative leave, but Rojas will continue to be paid.

John Piowaty is also charged with felony burglary and grand theft.

Florida State police say both men are graduates of the University of Florida and neither have any previous criminal record.

Florida State President T-K Wetherell says he will consider reducing the charges if the men are prepared to make restitution to the university for the replacement trophies and investigation
expenses.

The trophies are worth 75-hundred dollars a piece.

[Ksyrup]

Dola.

That's the most bizarre spelling of 7,500 I've ever seen.

[QuikSand]

When i see that sort of phonetic spelling used, I think it's for radio bits -- for stations that read small news items off the wire.

[Greyroofoo]

"P-S-C spokesman Kevin Bloom says Rojas was placed on indefinite administrative leave, but Rojas will continue to be paid."

Is this really punishment?

[Ksyrup]

I applied for a job with the PSC straight out of law school. Before they even scheduled an interview, they told me the starting salary was $19,900. This was in 1996. I declined the opportunity. Of course, now the starting salary for state attornies is somewhere around $30K, I think. But back then, $19,900 was the minimum.

In state worker speak, that just means they're going to fire him, but they have to get their ducks in a row first. If he holds a normal Select Exempt attorney position, he is an at-will employee and has no due process rights to his job like other state workers, which would require a "for cause" termination and give the worker appeals rights, etc.

Basically, this is his severance pay is my guess.

[kcchief19]

"P-S-C spokesman Kevin Bloom says Rojas was placed on indefinite administrative leave, but Rojas will continue to be paid."

Is this really punishment? Thankfully the rest of the sentence should read "until he is fired and this incidence makes him largely unemployable as an attorney for the rest of his life."

I just can't imagine doing something this stupid as a "prank." A prank usually involves stealing a goat or maybe taking the trophy out for a joyride and photos over the weekend and returning it covertly. It doesn't usually involve stealing $15,000 worth of trophies and keeping them until you're caught a year later.

[albionmoonlight]

Thankfully the rest of the sentence should read "until he is fired and this incidence makes him largely unemployable as an attorney for the rest of his life."

I just can't imagine doing something this stupid as a "prank." A prank usually involves stealing a goat or maybe taking the trophy out for a joyride and photos over the weekend and returning it covertly. It doesn't usually involve stealing $15,000 worth of trophies and keeping them until you're caught a year later.
Agreed. And pranks are better done by college kids with nothing to lose (or, at least, an excuse for believing that they have nothing to lose).

[tucker342]

what do you expect, he did go to Florida... I think that explains alot...;)