The Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs brought a lawsuit against Joe Gerace after the state said it discovered he’d misrepresented his military rank and believed he received undeservedly high pay.
Former Anchorage Health Department director Joe Gerace conducts a press conference in an emergency operations center at the department’s downtown Anchorage office building on Friday, Dec. 3, 2021.
Former Anchorage Health Department director Joe Gerace, who resigned the same day extensive fabrications about his professional and educational experience came to light, has In a deal finalized Tuesday and approved by Superior Court Judge Andrew Guidi, Gerace agreed to pay the state $30,000 to settle claims he fraudulently misrepresented his military experience.
The state aimed to recoup $61,576.09 in overcompensation it said had been paid to Gerace during his 203 days of active duty service with the Defense Force.The attorney representing Gerace in the case did not return a message seeking comment Thursday.troubled tenure with the Municipality of Anchorage as head of the city’s health department during the first part of Mayor Dave Bronson’s administration. Gerace was given the job in the fall of 2021, just months after Bronson came into office.
showed that Gerace had made up or embellished most of his professional credentials and work experience. He resigned shortly before the reporting was published, and local officials launched an investigation to figure out how he’d been appointed and confirmed in the first place. detailing that during the hiring process, the human resources department never contacted any of Gerace’s references, or verified his purported educational credentials and past employers.
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