Author: Dan Christensen
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It’s make or break time for 9/11 families’ lawsuit; Saudis seek dismissal despite ‘overwhelming evidence’
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The arguments are in and now it’s up to a federal judge in New York City to decide whether the momentous civil lawsuit pitting Saudi Arabia against the 9/11 wounded and families of the 2,977 dead lives or dies. -
After state judge abdicates, Commission on Ethics to give “MAGA Warrior” rare do-over hearing
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
In a highly unusual move, Florida’s Commission on Ethics will reconsider charges against controversial Republican State Rep. Randy Fine that it previously found probable cause to believe were true: that he abused and misused his elected office. -
Saudi Arabia wins dismissal of suit by relatives of dead and survivors of 2019 terrorist attack at Pensacola Naval Air Station
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A federal judge has dismissed a multi-million-dollar lawsuit seeking to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for a murderous rampage by a Royal Saudi Air Force officer at the Pensacola Naval Air Station nearly five years ago. -
NRA dumps longtime Florida lobbyist Marion Hammer, halts hundreds of thousands in payments flowing to her
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
No one seems to agree on the actual origin of the idiom, “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.” But it’s nonetheless useful to describe what just happened to longtime National Rifle Association Florida lobbyist Marion Hammer. -
Whitewash at Florida ethics commission as commissioner Freddie Figgers beats ‘speeding ticket’
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
After listening to a whitewash proffered by its general counsel, Florida’s Commission on Ethics Friday gave absolution to ethics commissioner Freddie Figgers for failing to file a required financial disclosure form for 2021. -
Bob Graham, 9/11, the FBI and me
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
I didn’t get to know Bob Graham until he was late in life. I’d met him briefly a couple of times in the mid-1980s when he was in his second term as Florida’s governor and I was a cityside reporter for The Miami News, but you can’t really know someone under such circumstances…
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