Usually content with digging secret escape tunnels and carving guns out of soap, one band of penal miscreants sunk so low as to bring in a ringer so their softball team would win the big tournament:
The state Corrections Department put a former minor league baseball player on the payroll in a no-show job so that he could help prison guards win a softball tournament, investigators say.
The ringer, Mark Guerra, 34, agreed to repay $1,400 and complete 50 hours of community service, state Attorney General Charlie Crist said Wednesday.
Guerra was charged with accepting paychecks for work never done at a prison library. Investigators said he accepted the money to play on the winning team in a tournament held last May by Corrections Secretary Jim Crosby.
Crosby was fired by Gov. Jeb Bush last month.
“It is disturbing that a state agency would place so much importance on a team sport that it would stoop to committing crimes,” Crist said.
I wonder if that guy will be able to play on the US team in the next World Baseball Classic?
Posted by: tfhr at March 23, 2006 03:39 AMthats it..I changed my name...the nerve.
Posted by: csason at March 23, 2006 07:14 AMoh, oh. "charged with accepting paychecks for work never done"
That ain't good news.
Posted by: Arcs at March 23, 2006 09:27 AM