An inspector with the U.S. Department of Labor came to the Keys to investigate the Key Largo Volunteer Fire Department after receiving several calls from someone falsely claiming to be the chief.
The Labor staffer showed up at the mile marker 99 fire station on Sept. 14 asking to see payroll information, Chief Don Bock said this week. The inspector said she came down to the Keys from Miami because she said she told the man impersonating Bock several times that she wanted the information and it was never sent.
“She seemed a little surprised when she found out I was not the person who called her,” Bock said.
The fire department and the taxing district that funds the department and the Key Largo Ambulance Corps has long been the setting for political skirmishes, so there is a list of people who could have a big-enough bone to pick to make the calls to the Department of Labor.
“I’m not even going to speculate,” Bock said.