Ben Roethlisberger isn’t the only one who got into trouble with his employer for the March 5 incident in Milledgeville, Georgia. The police officers moonlighting as Roethlisberger’s bodyguards are also taking heat, and there are new allegations of impropriety regarding one officer’s work for Roethlisberger.
Carl Prine of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that Pennsylvania State Police recruiter Edward Joyner’s work as Roethlisberger’s bodyguard was outlawed by police regulations, and that the officer whose signature appears on the form that gave Joyner permission to work for Roethlisberger says that signature was forged.
“I can say with all certainty that the signature is not mine. I do not know who signed my name,” said retired Lt. Col Cynthia Transue of her signature appearing on the form approving Joyner’s side job.
In April Joyner was ordered to stop working for Roethlisberger, but he’s currently appealing that order.
Prine reports that Joyner worked as Roethlisberger’s travel agent, contractor, dry cleaning deliveryman, personal shopper, car detailer and valet -- and in addition to all that still had time not only for a full-time job as a police officer, but also to bill the taxpayers for more overtime than almost any other trooper -- 602 hours of overtime in 2009, which earned him about $30,000 in extra pay.
Another officer who worked for Roethlisberger, Anthony Barravecchio, is in danger of losing his job as a police officer in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, as the city investigates Barravecchio’s actions in Milledgeville.