State Attorney OKs Wasteful Double-Dipping in Office, Blames Parkland Case

When veteran Broward prosecutor Carolyn McCann retired from the State of Florida in March, she collected a lump sum of about $280,000 from the state for her retirement plus roughly $60,000 a year for life.

After collecting that generous payout, McCann isn't legally allowed to return to state employment for at least a year. The law is meant to prevent government employees from the wasteful and often corrupt practice of "double-dipping" — retiring, collecting a pension, and then returning to work for the same salary, leaving ambitious, younger workers in the lurch.

But McCann, at the request of Broward State Attorney Mike Satz, returned to the agency less than two months later. She now makes $112,500 a year on the public dime in addition to the $60,000 annual pension (and the quarter-million-dollar-plus payout).

That's obviously illegal, right?

Nope. It seems the thirstiest of Florida's trough-drinking bureaucrats have found a loophole in the law that the state is allowing them to use. Though McCann is being paid the $112,500 in taxpayer money, she's technically employed by a pass-through private company based in St. Augustine called SS Solutions. Satz has arranged to pay that company $133,500 per year, which then funnels money to McCann, minus the firm's $21,000 fee for the trouble.

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