I recently did an open records request with the Jefferson
County District Attorney’s office for pay records of Investigator Molfino. It
was discovered that while Jefferson County taxpayers were paying Molfino
emergency pay to NOT work during Hurricane Laura, he was also getting paid in
Port Arthur, TX with tax payer funds to do catering. That double dipping is not
illegal although it certainly seems unethical.
The triple dipping is where things start to get illegal.
Pay records show that after Hurricane Laura, Molfino took
paid time off on 9/25/2020. He was paid his full salary by the tax payers for
the time that Molfino took off because Molfino claimed “comp pay.” Comp pay is
when Molfino says that he worked overtime on a day in the past but instead of
overtime pay, he instead takes off time in the future and still gets paid in
order to make up for the extra time he previously worked. The District
Attorney’s Office has yet to ever produce any records of this secret comp time
stash that Molfino frequently uses to get paid time off. However, on Molfino’s
time card Molfino wrote that the comp time he was getting paid for on 9/25 was
earned by working extra on 8/26 during Hurricane Laura. The problem is that
Molfino’s time card from 8/26 and his pay records both show that Molfino was
getting paid emergency pay to NOT work on 8/26, AND additionally we know that
Molfino was in Port Arthur getting paid to cook and cater during Hurricane
Laura. So therefore, it is not possible that Molfino had earned any comp time
on 8/26. So when Molfino claimed comp time earned on 8/26 in order to get paid
to take off of work on 9/25, it appears that it was a false statement on his
pay card by claiming comp time that that could not have been earned when
Molfino claimed it was earned, and therefore theft of taxpayer dollars.
Molfino getting fired comes in this middle of me waiting for
additional records for the County regarding this potential criminal activity.
update: The DA's office says that Molfino resigned. That is true. He was told to resign or be fired. It is less paperwork and less bad press that way. A nonvoluntary resignation under threat of getting fired anyways is actually just simply getting fired.
But wait, that is not the only recent allegation of
wrongdoing by Molfino.
Recently, a person named Mary Bond has come forward with
allegations that Marcelo Molfino had falsified information in order to have her
arrested. Furthermore, she alleges that Molfino used his government computer to
access confidential past information and photos in order to leak those photos
to a local political blogger. It is against the law to use information and
government resources for private gain. It is called abuse of official
information. Furthermore, it is certainly against the law to make false
statements in order to get someone arrested.
Exactly how much these recent allegations played a part in
District Attorney Bob Wortham finally letting Marcelo Molfino go is unknown.
Maybe the recent events were just the straw that broke the camel’s back because
there is a long list of allegations and information about wrongdoing by
Investigator Marcelo Molfino from over the years. Molfino recently escaped charges
of perjury, thanks to the statute of limitations running out, after a Texas
Rangers investigation showed that Marcelo Molfino committed perjury by lying
under oath on the stand. I have not done a follow up on that story yet but I
will be posting the Texas Rangers report as soon as I get it. In short, Molfino
had been trying to set up me, David Bellow, with false charges as retaliation
for me having blew the whistle on Marcelo Molfino for practicing without a
license, a Class A Misdemeanor. All charges against me were dropped, and now I
try to help others, and help society, by working to expose the bad actors who
abuse their trust and position they have been given by the citizens.
There will be more to come out as I get more data and
information and records.
Here are some of the previous articles involving DA
Investigator Marcelo Molfino and corruption in Jefferson County:
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