Professor JOSEPH SAVIAK, Associate Professor of Public Administration, Flagler College (HCN)
Flagler College Associate Professor of Public Administration JOSEPH SAVIAK, currently conducting an online smear campaign against Mayor Nancy Shaver, was fired by the Orange County Sheriff in 2001 for misusing office letterhead to threaten State Bar officials with "civil and criminal liability" when he flunked the Bar exam. Bless his heart, his lies know bounds -- he even falsely accused me of publishing his home address, of stalking and of trying to get him fired. His communication is bathed in the defense mechanism of "projection" and in the guilty knowledge that he falsely attacked our heroic reform mayor, Nancy Shaver, and got caught at it. My calm response to Prof. SESTAK's irrational bullying threats is here.
Here is the threatening letter -- what errant noisome nonsense:
On 10/14/16, Saviak, Joe
> Mr. Slavin,
>
> I also need you to immediately remove my private cell phone number and our
> home address from your website and to stop inciting individuals to stalk and
> harass my family using our personal contact information on your public
> website.
>
> Due to your current mental condition, I don't believe you realize how
> incoherent, rambling, threatening, and profoundly out of touch with
> objective reality you were during our phone conversation yesterday.
>
> I cannot be at my home 24 seven when my wife is there and the last thing I
> need is a mentally unbalanced stalker like you or one of your compatriots
> confronting her at our home. We are in the middle of a disaster zone and
> only residents should be in the neighborhood as well as those who are
> lawfully assisting residents in the recovery. To call for complete
> strangers on your website - as you are now doing - to flock to our home and
> confront us or even worse is unconscionable and likely illegal.
>
> Please stop now before someone is hurt as a result of your actions.
>
> Dr. Joe Saviak
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Oct 14, 2016, at 2:32 PM, Saviak, Joe
>>
>> Mr. Slavin,
>>
>> Our family home was destroyed by Hurricane Matthew. We have spent all of
>> our waking hours aiding our neighbors in Davis Shores as we all recover
>> from tragedy and attempt to rebuild our lives. We are not going to rest
>> until their needs are met and their futures are secure.
>>
>> I dont know you but yesterday you called me out of the blue to repeatedly
>> threaten me and my job at Flagler College if I did not immediately "shut
>> up" in sharing the extremely well documented criticism by my neighbors and
>> community of the Mayor's poor handling of her response to the worst
>> natural disaster to strike our city in five decades.
>>
>> At no time, have I ever relinquished the First Amendment rights I enjoy as
>> an American to both praise and criticize public officials and communicate
>> the very real concerns of my neighbors who are hurting. They have asked
>> me to be their advocate and I will not let them down. This right to speak
>> freely was purchased by the blood of the American soldier - my father was
>> one of millions of American men to fight overseas in World War II to
>> protect our God-given rights against fascist regimes.
>>
>> I am a deeply flawed man living in a broken world. I readily and openly
>> accept responsibility for both major and minor mistakes I have made my
>> life. I would also note that I have been a part of a few successes too.
>>
>> I'm not sure what has possessed you to conduct an extensive investigation
>> of my life and without any meritorious purpose, attack me to my current
>> employer who holds me in very high regard on long-ago issues that are more
>> than 15 years old, have no discernible relationship to my current
>> position, and of which you clearly know nothing about. It's not uncommon
>> in local government in America for senior executives to both join and
>> depart from specific administrations. You are probably unaware that
>> former Sheriff Kevin Beary and I enjoy an excellent relationship and we
>> were invited guests to his retirement celebration which we enjoyed with
>> the Beary family in January 2009. He was one of my biggest supporters
>> when I shared with him that I would be applying for this position at
>> Flagler College 10 years ago and asked me to list him as a strong
>> reference when I applied - this is a position that I truly treasure and
>> cherish as it gives me the unending blessing of mentoring, educating, and
>> aiding others in achieving their personal, professional, and educational
>> goals and helping them to be of greater service to our communities and
>> region.
>>
>> Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ has directed me to love those who hurt me
>> and I do love you. I am also taught that we are all accountable for our
>> actions and that I must not be foolish when a man poses a real and direct
>> threat to the safety and well-being of my family.
>>
>> It's very unfortunate that you are making direct threats to our well being
>> and communicating false and defamatory statements designed to destroy my
>> professional and personal reputation, harm my family, and distract me from
>> the number one priority in our lives right now which is to aid others
>> during incredible tragedy and suffering.
>>
>> I'm not sure if it is a behavioral health issue or a lack of character
>> which would inspire such cruelty to a family who has lost everything. If
>> it is a behavioral health issue, I would be glad to assist you in seeking
>> and receiving the appropriate treatment and care.
>>
>> I would be derelict in my responsibilities as a loving husband if I did
>> not notify local law-enforcement that I believe you to be capable of
>> inflicting serious physical harm to my family based upon your irrational
>> and reckless and continued behavior during a very painful tragedy for our
>> community and my family.
>>
>> Via this email I am notifying Sheriff Shoar and Chief Fox that I believe
>> you to be a threat to our well being and and to yourself so that they can
>> consider any and all appropriate actions towards you to ensure both your
>> safety and the safety of others in our community. Their experience and
>> expertise will of course guide their decision-making but at a minimum I
>> might suggest the use of the Baker Act to ensure that you receive the
>> treatment and care that your actions and words clearly communicate you are
>> in immediate need of right now. When I asked you yesterday during our
>> very unexpected phone conversation if you could please desist from this
>> behavior so that I can completely focus on the recovery needs of my
>> neighbors, your response has been to increase your attacks on and threats
>> to a family you don't know who is hurting as a result of an awful tragedy
>> - this indicates a very irrational state of mind.
>>
>> Since you have emailed false and defamatory statements to my employer with
>> the clearly communicated and deliberate intention to deprive me of
>> employment despite my record of outstanding service to our college, I want
>> to advise you of two things.
>>
>> First I want to give you the opportunity to apologize. We have all said
>> and done things of which we are not proud. Please consider this to be a
>> formal request for you to email everyone you have contacted with a sincere
>> and formal apology by 5 PM today.
>>
>> I am also directing our longtime and trusted family attorney Brendan
>> O'Connell to initiate any and all actions that he deems appropriate to
>> hold you accountable for the damage you are doing to my family and to
>> protect us from further attacks or abuses by you.
>>
>> It is entirely possible that if you were to immediately apologize to
>> everyone involved and cease and desist from any and all attacks on and
>> threats to my family and career during this horrific time in our lives
>> that we might be able to resolve the matter. However, either due to a
>> mental or behavioral health issue or a profound absence of character I
>> believe you to be completely incapable of controlling yourself right now.
>> For example, the fact that you threaten me and attempt to ruin my career
>> and then ask me to drop everything that I'm doing while helping hurting
>> neighbors during a crisis so that I can provide an interview to you based
>> upon my expertise and research in public private partnerships also
>> indicates that you are completely out of touch with reality right now.
>>
>> For a man to viciously attack and attempt to economically ruin a family in
>> the middle of terrible tragedy is hard for me to fathom. I am reminded of
>> the simple and truthful eloquence of the General Counsel for the United
>> States Army Joseph Welch who when confronted by lies and irresponsible
>> attacks on decent men and women by a clearly irrational individual
>> responded, "Have you no shame?"
>>
>> Today, there are people counting on my family to help their families and
>> it is somewhat frustrating that I had to divert even just a few minutes
>> from their suffering and real needs to respond to you. I also regret
>> having to take a single minute away from our local law-enforcement
>> authorities to even look at something like this. However, your bizarre
>> and threatening behavior leaves us with no other options and I am unable
>> to ignore the obvious potential threat to my family. My wife is already
>> under significant stress and it very much pains me that she could be hurt
>> further now - I must protect her.
>>
>> I must now focus on the very serious problems of my neighbors and I turn
>> this to over to law-enforcement and our family attorney. I want you know
>> that I love you and I'm praying for you and I very much hope that you get
>> the help that you very much need.
>>
>> Please consider this communication to be speaking truth with love.
>> Rational individuals would understand why I must take the actions
>> described in this communication in order to protect my family and others
>> and you from your own state of mind and actions.
>>
>> Please stop repeatedly calling me and emailing me and attempting to reach
>> me via social media. Please direct your communications to our family
>> attorney who is on this email.
>>
>> I very much hope that you can quickly receive the attention and help that
>> your out of control behavior clearly demands that you need now.
>>
>> Dr. Joe Saviak
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Oct 14, 2016, at 11:54 AM, Ed Slavin
>>>
>>> Dear Professor Saviak:
>>> 1. What was your state of mind when you allegedly used Orange County
>>> Sheriff's office letterhead to threaten The Florida Bar with "civil
>>> and criminal liability" because you failed the Bar exam?
>>> 2. Did you ever take the Bar exam again?
>>> 3. Please enlighten me.
>>> 4. Still waiting to hear back from you about your material false
>>> statements about Mayor Shaver.
>>> 5. I look forward to meeting you in person and talking about Pier
>>> Park, public-private partnerships and the St. Augustine National
>>> Historical Park and National Seashore, first proposed by Mayor Walter
>>> Fraser in 1939.
>>> Thank you.
>>> With kindest regards, I am,
>>> Sincerely yours,
>>> Ed Slavin
>>> 904-377-4998
>>> www.cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com
>>> www.edslavin.com
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Ed Slavin
>>> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 10:13:51 -0400
>>> Subject: Request No. 2016-418: JOSEPH SAVIAK
>>> To: barbara.perrin@ocfl.net, rcourtemanche@flabar.org
>>> Cc: pat.gleason@myfloridalegal.com, judgelitt10@gmail.com,
>>> wabare@flagler.edu, tomcushman@bellsouth.net, sheplaw@att.net,
>>> george.gabel@hklaw.com, waltbog@nytimes.com
>>>
>>> Dear Ms. Perrin and Mr. Courtemanche:
>>> 1. Please e-mail me by PDF all of the OCSO and Florida Bar documents
>>> associated with former Orange County Sheriff Chief of Staff and
>>> Political Liaison JOSEPH SAVIAK (now Flagler College Associate
>>> Professor) allegedly threatening The Florida Bar in 2001 with "civil
>>> and criminal liability" after he failed the Florida Bar examination,
>>> using Orange County Sheriff's Office letterhead to do so.
>>> http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2001-11-22/news/0111220174_1_beary-county-sheriff-office-orange-county
>>> 2. Please include JOSEPH SAVIAK's letter in quo to The Florida Bar;
>>> his OCSO termination papers; any rebuttal, unemployment, worker's
>>> compensation, employment or civil rights claims; any document(s) or HR
>>> computer screen reflecting whether SAVIAK is eligible for rehiring;
>>> the OCSO Internal Affairs investigation (if any); and the Florida Bar
>>> response to SAVIAK's letter, including any character and fitness
>>> determinations or referrals to FDLE or FBI, et al., and any documents
>>> reflecting whether he ever took the Bar examination again.
>>> 3. Please also address responses to easlavin@aol.com.
>>> Thank you.
>>> With kindest regards, I am,
>>> Sincerely yours,
>>> Ed Slavin
>>> 904-377-4998
>>> www.cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com
>>> www.edslavin.com
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