The Money Trail

Linda, here are the data below from the state pension people on Dr. Hamilton's retirement record.

I believe that the June date locates his beginning of the job that Ms. Elia created for him. That's when his name showed careted in pen or pencil above Mr. Otero's on the school Web site.

The clerk who handled his new job's record told me Dr. Hamilton's name went on that job before it was even posted officially. I am sure she did not realize she was giving out covert information, and if I knew her name, I would not reveal it because the poor woman would be drawn and quartered.

If Dr. Hamilton began his monthly pension benefit In July of 2007, I believe that the $6.548.95 state pension he received while still working for a salary on his created job in the school system.

I don't know when he began his IRS benefit, but I can find out by laying out the whole problem to the IRS and asking its services to assist me.

I figure that Dr. Hamilton's take comes to more than $78,000 a year in pension benefits alone; plus he gets Social Security as well. Plus his salary for the created job at the school board meant even more money for him.

All in all, the total is quite a haul. It puts into vivid contrast teachers' meager benefits and reveals why fellows who don't know the difference between "your" and "you're" head for the administration redoubt when they exit college instead of the class room.

I doubt that the IRS would consider this arrangement kosher.

I will find out if necessary. The school's money people must have a record of the payments Dr. Hamilton got on the $140,000 salary that the clerk told me the created job got. They can't give out tax money without keeping a record of it.

In a regular board meeting, I recall the chair of the board's saying that Dr. Hamilton was retiring to attenuated applause sometime in the fall of 2008. I think it was November.

What I can't figure out is why somebody who rakes in Dr. Hamilton's opulent tax-supplied monthly take would not be parading on one of those nude beaches in the Riviera demonstrating his physique to admiring hordes of groupies of the rich people who can afford to live there and living off their crumbs.

Another mystery is why Dr. Hamilton continues to extract tax monies via his sweetheart arrangement of Mixon and Associates in Tallahassee.

When is enough enough?

I am old. But one never gets too old to be astonished by such sagas of greed.

Please send me a record of the last two years employment of Dr. Hamilton for the school board with dates. Please include the monthly payout for the post-retirement-date job beginning in July and ending, I believe, in November.

When asked such questions as the above, the customary response of the ROSSAC quidnuncs is to try to make a case for anyone's asking questions like these as a crazed individual who needs a strait jacket, not information. Aged and frail though I am, I will psychologically and intellectually arm wrestle the whole ROSSAC horde of C students to quell that accusation.

I would not want to be on the public-affairs team who had to deal with a scenario like the one outlined above. lee drury de cesare

-----Original Message----- From: Inman, Ryan [mailto:Ryan.Inman@dms.myflorida.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 9:20 AM To: lee Subject: RE: Regarding your Public Records Request Mr. De Cesare, Thank you for the additional identifying information. Mr. Hamilton enter the Deferred Retirement Option Program (DROP) July 1, 2002 with an initial monthly benefit of $5,649.17. He terminated from the DROP program June 30, 2007 and received payment of his DROP accrual in the amount of $420,340.55 as a direct rollover. He then began receiving his monthly benefit directly in the amount of $6,548.95 in July of 2007. I hope this information fulfills your public records request. Please let me know if there is anything else I can provide you. Thank you and have a wonderful day! Ryan M. Inman Senior Benefits Analyst Division of Retirement Telephone: 850/488-5706 or Toll-free: 877/377-1737 Email: Ryan.Inman@dms.myflorida.com www.FloridaDiscountDrugCard.com "With A Servant's Heart, We Serve Those Who Serve Florida" DISCLAIMER NOTICE: This email, along with any included attachment(s), is intended for use only by the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. This message may contain confidential, proprietary, and/or legally privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. You are hereby notified that you are prohibited from printing, copying, storing, disseminating or distributing this communication. If you received this communication in error, please notify the sender by email or by telephone at (850) 488-5540 or toll-free at (866) 738-2366 if Tallahassee is not a local call for you. All record of the communication you received in error (electronic or otherwise) should be destroyed in its entirety. Thank you for your cooperation and assistance in this matter. From: lee [mailto:tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 12:03 AM To: Inman, Ryan Subject: RE: Regarding your Public Records Request Dr. Hamilton worked for the Hillsborough County School Board. THank you. lee de cesare -----Original Message----- From: Inman, Ryan

[mailto:Ryan.Inman@dms.myflorida.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 5:37 PM To: tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com Subject: Regarding your Public Records Request Mr. De Cesare, Thank you for your public records request. With 47 “James Hamilton”s in our system, I will need some other identifying information in order to provide the information you have requested. Please tell me who the employer is for the Mr. Hamilton you are inquiring about or give me a birth date, Social Security number and/or a middle initial to use as an identifier. Thank you. Ryan M. Inman Senior Benefits Analyst Division of Retirement Telephone: 850/488-5706 or Toll-free: 877/377-1737 Email: Ryan.Inman@dms.myflorida.com www.FloridaDiscountDrugCard.com "With A Servant's Heart, We Serve

Those Who Serve Florida" DISCLAIMER NOTICE: This email, along with any included attachment(s), is intended for use only by the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. This message may contain confidential, proprietary, and/or legally privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. You are hereby notified that you are prohibited from printing, copying, storing, disseminating or distributing this communication. If you received this communication in error, please notify the sender by email or by telephone at (850) 488-5540 or toll-free at (866) 738-2366 if Tallahassee is not a local call for you. All record of the communication you received in error (electronic or otherwise) should be destroyed in its entirety.

Thank you for your cooperation and assistance in this matter.