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He has also been an Instructor Political Science at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in Tallahassee, Florida since August 2000. Previously, he served on former Florida Governor Lawton Chiles" 1994 re-election committee before being essentially fired according to Chuck Wolfe, Chiles" director of external affairs Florida Advertising & Marketing University Political Science Instructor.
Special assistant for Governor Lawton Chiles.
Leon County Commissioner for District 1. In 1998, after a series of campaign finance violations, including a number of unreported campaign contributions, the Florida Elections Commission charged Proctor with 178 penalty counts totaling over $200,000 in damages, a figure that was reduced by a judge in 2004 to $82,000.
The State of Florida Commission on Ethics ordered Leon County Commissioner Bill Proctor to pay civil penalties on August 24, 2000 for violating the Full and Public Disclosure of Financial Interests sections of the Florida Constitution. In October 2001, an attorney for the Florida Elections Commission said Leon County Commissioner Bill Proctor has shown "a gross defiance" of campaign finance laws.
The morning after his misdemeanor conviction of failing to report eight political contributions, Proctor did not show up for a hearing on the state"s allegations, when asked why he said he had not been notified of the hearing.
Leon County Commissioner Bill Proctor"s salary is garnished for failing to pay $20,334 in federal income taxes and penalties as well as $28,983 in outstanding student loans. According to court records, Proctor also owes the Internal Revenue Service a total of $61,750 in unpaid income taxes, interest and penalties. The dean of FAMU issued a written reprimand for Proctor"s frequent unexcused absences, and the campus newspaper, The Famuan, wrote an expose about absentee professors naming only Proctor.
When questioned in 2007, Proctor said, "I have the discretion and academic freedom to grade my courses as I deem.
lieutenant ain"t high technology and how many bolts of steel you need to have in a 40-story building." In 2010, the Tallahassee Democrat asked why he was frequently absent. He responded, "I have no idea.
I mean, I can"t remember."
Bill Proctor"s son, Jordan Proctor, was arrested in September 2014, and after giving a statement to police, he was charged with armed robbery.
