Rumor has it that the Monroe County State Attorney issued a warrant Tuesday for the arrest of Lisa Rosier, the former manager of the County's court reporting team. Reportedly, Rosier is being accused of grand theft and official misconduct— charges that resulted from the double-dipping scandal first reported by Key West The Newspaper last year.
The reason we're referring to this report as a rumor is that— even though the story has been published in two Keys newspapers— the warrant is still, apparently, not yet public record. The folks in Court Clerk Danny Kolhage's office don't know anything about it. Nobody at the Sheriff's Dept. seems to know anything about it. And State Attorney Kirk Zuelch won't talk. "The fact that we don't have it would indicate that it has not yet been served," said a source in the Clerk's office.
"Maybe that's the plan," said former County court reporter Kathi Fegers, who was one of the original whistle-blowers in the double-dipping scandal. "Maybe they're just going to sit on it. Nobody over there— nobody in the judiciary and nobody in the State Attorney's Office— really wanted to prosecute Lisa. They're all buddies over there. But once the press picked up the story, there were too many eyes on them. They could no longer just ignore it."
Indeed, although the warrant was prepared by the State Attorney's Office in Key West, reportedly no Key West judge would sign it. The warrant had to be carried up to the Plantation Key government center to be signed by visiting Judge Thomas Spencer.
"But now they seem to be dragging their feet on serving it, don't they?" Fegers said. "And it's not that they didn't know where Lisa was this week. She's been working a trial in Key West,"