What this actually reminds me of is the stories about Japanese salary
men who lose their job, but leave the house everyday and go feed
pigeons so their family and neighbors don't know and they will not lose
face, except they don't get paid.
On the other hand there are real gottchas lurking in the grass. (In
what follows I assume that there was no valid long term appointment).
If nothing else, Michaels has testified under oath as the State
Climatologiest of Virginia, he has accepted his salary (even got
raises) over many years. It would not be unusual in a case like this
that he would have to pay back the money. There are laws against
impersonating state officials. (Of course you have to get past the
issue of whether State Climatologist is a state position in VA).
The base problem against a Sgt. Schultz defence (I don't know nothing)
is that Michaels benefited monetarily and in other ways from what is
potentially an impersonation of a state official.
OTOH, we could then go back and read all the stirring defenses of
Michaels, the eminent State Climatologist (but he did stay once at
Holiday Inn Express).
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