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FDLE DUI Breath Alcohol Testing Director Resigns Amid Allegations Sexual Affair with Married Retired Citrus County Public Official and Misuse of State Credit Card | The Law Office of Robert David Malove
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fl. (April 6) A scathing report that Florida Department of Law Enforcement manager Laura Barfield used her state-issued car to carry on an affair and charged thousands in personal expenses to her state credit card has led to her resignation.
For over 10 years while at FDLE, Barfield appeared in courtrooms across the state, while she was misusing her government issued automobile to travel out of the way and have overnight liasions with her married ex-boyfriend, Eber Brown, former Deputy County Administrator of Citrus County.
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Investigators found Barfield often drove out of her way to see Brown in Lecanto, Fla., using her FDLE Chevy filled with state-paid gas. Barfield justified her actions claiming that she actually saved the State money since the State didn t have to pay for hotel rooms.
Barfield submitted vouchers for reimbursement for gas and mileage on her state-issued car that she was not entitled to receive, basically stealing from the taxpayers who paid her. When asked for a comment about these allegations, Fort Lauderdale Criminal Defense Attorney and Founding Member of the National College for DUI Defense Robert D. Malove said, submitting vouchers to the State for reimbursement that you are not entitled to receive is at the core of what the False Claims Act is designed to prevent. Her conduct cheap hotels in venice is criminal!
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