Former KKK member loses state retirement benefits after conviction in murder plot

[Judi Lynn]

By News Service of Florida
Posted Jul 6, 2018 at 8:00 PM
Updated Jul 6, 2018 at 8:10 PM

A former correctional officer convicted of conspiring to murder a former inmate in a case that involved the Ku Klux Klan will lose his state retirement benefits, according to an order issued this week.

The State Board of Administration, which operates the retirement system, issued the order upholding a recommendation from an administrative law judge that David Moran should forfeit his benefits. Moran, a former sergeant at the Florida Department of Corrections Reception and Medical Center at Lake Butler, was convicted in a plot to kill a black former inmate who had bitten another officer.

Moran and another correctional officer and a former officer involved in the plot were members of the Ku Klux Klan, according to a order recommended by Administrative Law Judge Hetal Desai in May. The men were arrested after enlisting an FBI informant to help kill the former inmate.

The State Board of Administration informed Moran in 2017 that he had forfeited his benefits because of the conviction. Moran sought an administrative hearing, contending in part that there was not a connection between his job at the Department of Corrections and the conspiracy. Desai disagreed, and the State Board of Administration order backed that opinion.

More:
http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20180706/former-kkk-member-loses-state-retirement-benefits-after-conviction-in-murder-plot

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Older article:
Author: Associated Press
Published: April 2, 2015 1:44 PM EDT
Updated: April 2, 2015 4:38 PM EDT

Florida prison workers accused of plotting to kill inmate




GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) – . . .

The three men – Thomas Jordan Driver, 25, David Elliot Moran, 47, and 42-year-old Charles Thomas Newcomb – each were arrested Thursday on one state count of conspiracy to commit murder, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office said in a written statement.

The state said the murder plotting started after Driver, an officer at the Department of Corrections Reception and Medical Center in rural north Florida, had a fight with the inmate.

Moran is currently an officer sergeant at that facility. Newcomb was fired in 2013 for failing to meet training requirements, according to the department.

Bondi’s office said the three were also members of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. The group that has garnered attention in recent months for distributing flyers that likened protesters in Ferguson, Missouri to terrorists.

More:
http://www.winknews.com/2015/04/02/florida-prison-workers-accused-of-plotting-to-kill-inmate/

[SummerSnow]

1. Are my eyes deceiving me or does that Moran guy looks like a black man?

[Beakybird]

2. Looks like the Klan is practicing a little affirmative action!

[Judi Lynn]

3. I wondered, myself, but remembered a lot of Spanish people have the same surname, and checked google

Moran (surname)

Moran (Irish: Ó Móráin) is a modern Irish surname and derived from membership of a medieval dynastic sept. The name means a descendent of Mórán. “Mor” in Gaelic translates as big or great and “an” as the prefix the. Morans were a respected sept of the Uí Fiachrach dynasty in the western counties of Mayo and Sligo. In Ireland, where the name descended from the Gaelic, it is generally pronounced /ˈmɒrən/ MORR-ən[1] anglicised approximate of the Irish pronunciation.

More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moran_(surname)

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Surname Moran - Origin Spanish or Irish ? Information
Declan Moran (View posts)
Posted: 28 Jul 1999 01:01AM

While in Spain I read that the names origin is the following: In northern Spain near "Covadonga" a few hundred years ago, as the Spanish were starting to force the Moors of North Africa to retreat, the daughter of a Spanish king was made pregnant by a Moore warrior. The name given to the offspring was Moran which in a strange way meant "of the moore".

While travelling in the north of Spain myself, I stopped at a hotel in a small town one night. To my amazement the receptionist told me that my surname was very common in the that town.

I should point out that the north of Spain and especially that town are on the Atlantic ocean. So is Ireland. Travel between the two, although very difficult was possible.

The Irish name Moran (or at least the Irish names from which it has been anglicised) is very old. If the Spanish believe that their name Moran is only a few hundred years old as the story about Covadonga suggests then I would say that the Spanish name probably comes from the Irish name as the Irish one is older.

https://www.ancestry.com/boards/localities.weurope.spain.general/1906.30/mb.ashx

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Have seen lots of faces over the years with darker features, also with "Moran" as a surrname.

Another article:

Who are the Black Irish?

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- click for image -

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-62abfd5bcca5bf9126cf2adb1d9e48c4.webp

Colin Farrell (used as an example)

https://www.quora.com/Who-are-the-Black-Irish

[bitterross]

4. Thanks for the research.

I was thinking the guy looked Hispanic. But now it all makes much more sense.

[jmowreader]

5. He looks like a Latin American to me

[madinmaryland]

6. Florida Man is a Moran!! Whoda thunk!!