Harris aide serving theft term

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Fri, Aug. 11, 2006
CAMPAIGN 2006 U.S. SENATE
Harris aide serving theft term

A close friend and aide to Katherine Harris is serving a sentence for having stolen money from his former employers.
By MARC CAPUTO
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Before he became U.S. Senate candidate Katherine Harris' travel aide, Bruce Carlton Jordan journeyed across the state and dined out with money he stole from his former employers, according to court records.

Jordan, 42, is a longtime friend of the Longboat Key congresswoman and began working as her volunteer driver and personal assistant in March -- about a month after he got out of jail, according to the Leon County Sheriff's Office.

Now on community control and three years' probation, Jordan must pay restitution and has occasionally traded in his well-cut campaign-trail suits for jail stripes to work off the remainder of his 60-day sentence cleaning roadsides and moving furniture for nonprofit organizations.

His crime: charging $1,125.79 worth of personal airline tickets on the American Express card of his boss at Florida Workers' Advocates in fall 2005 -- while at the same time passing fake work checks and filing false reimbursements that totaled $2,975.39, court records show. Charged with multiple felonies, Jordan pleaded no contest to a single grand-theft count.
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[tanyev]

1. Well he should fit right in.

[MessiahRp]

2. I wonder if he's secretly stolen from her

She sure picks a wonderful cast of people to surround herself with.

Rp