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As Waste Management tightens grip in Broward, recycling becomes costlier, endangered
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Last month, Sunrise City Manager Richard Salamon fired off an ominous email to more than two dozen of his fellow municipal managers across Broward. The subject: solid waste disposal and single stream recycling. The urgent message: “most of us are facing the reality we don’t have anyone lined up to accept our recyclables in 2 ½ months.” That’s as of July 3. -
Nickel-dime payout from Florida Bar fund ‘like a slap in the face,’ says victim of crooked lawyer
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Laura Harris is not happy with how the Florida Bar handled her claim against a disbarred lawyer. She, her five siblings and their mother scraped together $38,000 to hire a Tallahassee lawyer and help their brother and son, Charles E. Bell, who is serving a life sentence in a Florida prison. It turned out the lawyer, Bernard Daley, made a career of ripping off people like Bell’s relatives. -
Florida Bar has money-back guarantee for clients of thieving lawyers, but collecting isn’t easy
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
The Florida Bar has a pot of money available for swindled law clients. But getting some isn’t easy. For starters, you have to document exactly what your thieving lawyer extracted during your attorney-client relationship. The breakup must have been painful. -
A new transparency push calls on Trump, intelligence chiefs to declassify all 9/11 records
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Faced with persistent government stonewalling, a growing opposition that’s grounded in American hearts and taking root on Capitol Hill is calling on President Trump and the nation’s law enforcement and intelligence chiefs to declassify all documents related to investigations of the 9/11 attacks. -
Taxpayers’ tab for Broward Health’s lawyers (not counting defense of indicted leaders)
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Broward Health expects to pay outside law firms nearly $1 million more this year than in 2017, with its annual legal expenses now budgeted at more than $6.1 million. Those expenses don’t include any additional legal costs to indemnify at taxpayer expense five current and former Broward Health officials under indictment since December.
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