2. Sounds like zero tough questions at the putative "press conference." Who was NOT invited and why?
3. Thanks to the Bank of America employee(s) who telephoned the Sheriff's Department to report fraud (vendor check being deposited in bank account of SHOAR's direct report, RAYE A BRUTNELL), Finance Director, 2013-2018. That fact about BoA is in the arrest warrant.
4. Dodgy DAVID SHOAR has repeatedly ducked questions and records requests.
5. In his outrageous ongoing Michelle O'Connell coverup, Sheriff DAVID SHOAR has for years refused an interview with Walter Bogdanich, three-time Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times investigative reporter. In the immortal words of the late conservative conscience, William F. Buckley, Jr., "Why does baloney reject the grinder?"
6. Nasty non compos mentis manipulator Sheriff DAVID SHOAR -- who legally changed his name from "HOAR" in 1994 -- has in the defense of Deputy JEREMY BANKS for years emitted untruths and Trump-like pejoratives, and no facts. SHOAR sounds crazy -- paranoid, like the Captain in "The Caine Mutiny."
7. Since he was first elected in 2004, the St. Augustine Record has been one of SHOAR's willing accomplices, empowering this tormented tinpot Napoleon with puff piece after puff piece. SJSO was found liable for Fourth Amendment violations by four (4) federal judges, three of them Republican appointees, in the case brought by attorney Anne Marie Gennusa.
8. In the year since Morris Communications sold the Record and GateHouse took over, the Record STILL refuses to fulfill the Founder's "watchdog" function for the Fourth Estate. There is NO critical investigative reporting of Sheriff SHOAR, not even in connection with this latest crime -- nearly $700,000 theft right under his nose, for five years, by his hand-picked Finance Director. Do your jobs, without fear or favor. Now. It's why we pay your salaries with our subscriptions.
9. Sheriff DAVID SHOAR's sins, crimes and torts are made psosible by the louche lackeys at the St. Augustine Record, whose money-grubbing, misguided "managers" locally (and in Georgia, Texas and New York) have protected SHOAR's corrupt political machine.
10. This so-called "Sheriff" issued a nocturnal press release that accused a murdered woman's grieving family of "molesting" Michelle O'Connell's body. How? By arranging an independent autopsy, which showed her jaw was broken, a datum missed by SHOAR's lapdog louche "Medical Examiner," PREDRAG BULIC, M.D.
11. Did SHOAR engage in barratry, champerty and maintenance by inducing a yokel tort lawyer to sue Special Agent Rusty Ray Rodgers for civil rights violations?
12. Who paid that lawyer? He won't answer. That retaliatory lawsuit hung over Mr. Rodgers for 4.5 years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/us/florida-rusty-rodgers-jeremy-banks-lawsuit-dismissed.html
13. United States District Judge Brian J. Davis dismissed SHOAR's retaliatory Banks v. Rodgers case on March 30, 2018 (Good Friday/Passover), finding that there was probable cause for Special Agent Rodgers to conclude that Deputy Jeremy Banks murdered Michelle O'Connell.
14. Probable cause was also found by St. Johns County Court Judge Charles Jay Tinlin in 2014, in issuing a search warrant for Special Agent Rodgers to search BANKS' real and personal property.
15. An ethical prosecutor would have taken the case of State of Florida v. JEREMY BANKS to a Grand Jury and a jury trial. As Justice William Rehnquist said, juries "a bulwark against oppression." But oppressive State's Attorney RALPH JOSEPH LARIZZA -- and two (2) incurious special prosecutors appointed by Governor RICHARD LYNN SCOTT -- emitted only flummery, dupery and nincompoopery. The coverup began the night of September 2, 2010, when evidence was not collected and some was destroyed, and FDLE was not called in to investigate.
16. The New York Times reported SHOAR tried to get Special Agent Rodgers criminally prosecuted and fired for doing his job "too well."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/17/us/michelle-oconnell-jeremy-banks.html
17. Do you believe that Michelle O'Connell committed suicide? I don't.
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/two-gunshots/index.html
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/death-in-st-augustine/
18. How many more lies from Sheriff SHOAR will the St. Augustine Record print?
19. Did SHOAR commit crimes and fraudulently spend taxpayer money to persecute Special Agent Rodgers and to attack the Michelle O'Connell family and to print lies on his website and send them to the FBI? What do y'all reckon? Sheriff DAVID SHOAR's vicious lies are still there this morning, on Thanksgiving Day 2018: http://www.sjso.org/?page_id=7109
20. The truth will set us free, the Bible teaches.
21. In the wake of the nearly $700,000 embezzlement and Michelle O'Connell murder coverup, will Florida Governor Rick Scott or Governor-elect Ron DeSantis exercise their constitutional powers and duty to suspend Sheriff DAVID SHOAR pending investigation under Article IV, Section 7 of our Florida Constitution? https://cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com/2018/11/will-florida-governor-suspend-sheriff.html
From the November 22, 2018 St. Augustine Record:
Shoar faces media amidst financial scandal
The day after his finance director was arrested amid allegations that she embezzled more than $700,000 over a five-year period, St. Johns County Sheriff David Shoar spoke with reporters and took responsibility for the scandal that he says has rocked his agency.
“I am the person in charge and I have learned through my years in the military and through my years as a cop that you don’t get to shirk responsibility,” he said Wednesday afternoon during a roughly 30-minute news conference in his office.
It’s the answer he said he would give if one of the reporters present asked him who was ultimately responsible or at fault for the situation that required him to ask investigators from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office to come in and look into the fraud allegations in his finance department late last week.
By Tuesday morning, the director of that department, Raye A. Brutnell, had turned herself in at the Flagler County jail after those investigators obtained an arrest warrant for her on more than 150 felony counts including defrauding a financial institution, grand theft in excess of $100,000, organized scheme to defraud in excess of $50,000.
The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office terminated her employment the same day.
The warrant alleges that Brutnell, 47, set up four fictitious vendor accounts through which she funneled money to herself over five years and that she also had written other checks from a benevolence fund for money that ultimately went to pay for her father’s nursing home as well her mortgage and car payment.
Shoar offered little new information about the case, and reminded reporters that the investigation is continuing and still in its early stages.
“It’s a very difficult time for our agency,” he said as the conference got underway around 1 p.m.
He renewed praise for the two employees who came forward with their concerns, prompting the investigation, and he made assurances that authorities will be able to recover the missing funds but offered few details as to how that might happen.
He also said that he and his staff will be meeting with the independent auditors who have audited the agency in recent years in order to learn how the alleged crimes went on for the last five years and that so he and others can begin the work of putting in place safeguards to keep something similar from happening again.
And while Shoar at times expressed dismay, frustration and disappointment over the arrest of an employee that he said started at the agency in 1991 as a dispatcher and climbed to head of the finance department, he stressed that there would be remedies put in place and lessons learned.
“We are going to be better for it,” he said.
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