{"id":19336,"date":"2013-03-01T01:36:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T06:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=19336"},"modified":"2013-03-05T09:18:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T14:18:22","slug":"larosa-still-refuses-to-repay-unemployment-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/03\/larosa-still-refuses-to-repay-unemployment-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"LaRosa Still Refuses to Repay Unemployment Compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Frank LaRosa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was determined that former Lee Memorial Health System (LMHS) elected director Frank LaRosa was receiving unemployment compensation he did not deserve. Elected officials in the state of Florida do not qualify to receive unemployment. But, LaRosa filed an appeal concerning his unemployment compensation claim and has officially lost.<\/p>\n

Kristin Lock, a public relations representative for the State of Florida unemployment office, did state LaRosa received unemployment.<\/p>\n

LaRosa, when reached for comment for the Jul 3, 2012 article in the Gazette<\/em>, he replied with a string of expletives not suitable for repetition.<\/p>\n

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Jim Nathan, President of Lee Memorial Health System<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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But during a phone interview with the\u00a0Lehigh Acres Gazette<\/em>\u00a0for the Aug 26, 2012 article,\u00a0LaRosa stated he gave\u00a0all<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>his unemployment compensation to a family in need that lives in a trailer. But he refused to give the name or address of that family. \u00a0Also, he stated all his income from serving on the LMHS board member went to the needy. However, again LaRosa refused to reveal to whom he gave made these charitable donations too.<\/p>\n

According to a story on the\u00a0Lehigh Acres Citizen<\/em>\u00a0dated 2\/27\/2013 \u2013 \u201cFrank LaRosa, a member of the LACCP, who recently served for six years on Lee Memorial System’s Board of Directors, told the board he had plans to speak personally with Jim Nathan, who heads Lee County Health Systems.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to documents at the LMHS, LaRosa had a meeting scheduled this week with LMHS President Jim Nathan but the meeting as abruptly canceled by LaRosa. Documents show the cancelation of the meeting was due to LaRosa so called being ill but according sources when LaRosa learned that the LMHS could be asking him for full reimbursement for all taxpayer dollars that the health system had to use to defend the case that\u2019s when he canceled the meeting.<\/p>\n

Documents shows that LaRosa filed for unemployment in January 2011 claiming \u201clack of work,\u201d receiving $135 a week \u2013 money a Florida administrative judge said he wasn\u2019t entitled to because he wasn\u2019t an employee.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s in the code of ethics and Florida law. That\u2019s something that is out there,\u201d said Jim Humphrey, counsel for Lee Memorial Health System.<\/p>\n

In a statement from the Department of Economic Opportunity, officials said there have been no charges of fraud against LaRosa so far.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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