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Fire Chief’s Diploma Drama | Lake Charles News
An interim fire chief with 28 years on the job is facing retirement and possible dismissal over a disputed high school diploma—despite never being asked for proof, his application claims he graduated from Pineville High, but records don’t show it. He insists he attended a Florida school, took a polygraph, and even claims someone forged his signature—but the civil service board says that school wasn’t accredited or even existed when he was hired. The mayor’s intervention calls for no punishment, citing the impossibility of proving fraud after decades, yet Kessler sees it as a personal attack…
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