Author: Dan Christensen
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Split Hallandale commission votes to give Miami developer Tibor Hollo big break on fines
By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
Hallandale Beach city commissioners have let a prominent developer off the hook for nearly half-a-million dollars in fines for property code violations accumulated before it bought the land at a much lower price than paid by the former owners. -
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Drilling Deeper: The Wealth of Connections for Obama’s Energy Pick
By Justin Elliott
ProPublica
President Obama’s energy secretary nominee Ernest Moniz is a nuclear scientist who spent the last decade serving on a range of boards and advisory councils for energy industry heavyweights, including some that do business with the Department of Energy. -
Don’t ask, don’t tell at the Broward State Attorney’s Office
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Broward prosecutors who declined to charge a Coconut Creek policeman who pulled a Taser on a frightened theft suspect standing in a bathtub never asked the officer under oath why he hadn’t mentioned the incident in his police reports. -
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Conflicts of interest run rampant in state legislatures, including Florida
By Nicholas Kusnetz
Center for Public Integrity
SANTA FE — On February 20, New Mexico’s House Energy and Natural Resources Committee gathered for one of its regular meetings in a drab room here at the capitol, a circular building known as the Roundhouse. On the agenda: a bill that would hike fees and penalties for energy companies drilling wells in the state. -
Hallandale mayor, ex-city managers defend millions in suspect spending to county agents
By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
Current and former top Hallandale Beach officials defended – or offered excuses for – the handling of millions of dollars in community redevelopment funds to county investigators who have now accused the city of “gross mismanagement.” -
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New data shows drugmakers’ payments to hundreds of thousands of doctors
By Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein
ProPublica
Dr. John W. Draud is the medical director of psychiatric and addiction medicine at two Tennessee hospitals. But he’s also notable for another professional pursuit: during the last four years, he’s earned more than $1 million for delivering promotional talks and consulting for seven drug companies.
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