Month: July 2022
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Coral Springs police failed to investigate ‘suspicious incident’ involving part-time cop, a gun and woman passed out in his pick-up truck
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
A part-time officer with the Coral Springs Police appears to have abandoned an inebriated woman in the backseat of his truck with his personal firearm in the center console, but the department’s top brass quickly shut down any possibility of an investigation. -
Former chief justice, state rep blast system that teed up Renatha Francis for Florida Supreme Court
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
A former Florida Supreme Court chief justice and a state legislator are calling for an end to governors dictating who joins the state’s highest court based on politics instead of excellence. -
Big money and Sheriff Tony’s OK smoothed convicted felon’s return to Broward Sheriff’s Advisory Council
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
When the Broward Sheriff’s Advisory Council handed out medals for bravery in May, the honored officers and firefighters got their awards and a handshake from a convicted felon on federal probation. -
Florida kept paying millions for a contact tracing app after DeSantis said contact tracing doesn’t work
By Daniel Ducassi
FloridaBulldog.org
Months after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said contact tracing doesn’t work, his administration has continued to pay millions of dollars in no-bid deals for a COVID-19 contact tracing app made by a company with ties to a prominent, billionaire Republican donor and represented by an influential Tallahassee lobbyist. -
Roger Stone, wife agree to pay $2.1 million to settle IRS tax case, but where will the money come from?
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Fort Lauderdale’s Roger Stone, longtime political ally of Donald Trump and a subject of last week’s January 6 committee hearing, has agreed to pay more than $2.1 million to settle the government’s tax case against he and his wife, Nydia. -
Elite Broward Sheriff’s Advisory Council wrote $10K checks to spouses of murdered FBI agents, Gregory Tony demanded to present them
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
After two FBI agents serving a search warrant were gunned down in Sunrise on Feb. 2, 2021, the nonprofit Broward Sheriff’s Advisory Council took quick action to cut a pair of $10,000 checks to help the agents’ surviving spouses. Normally, the council presents such checks. Not this time.
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