Author: Dan Christensen
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Ex-Everglades Foundation chief scientist Van Lent guilty of contempt, faces up to 1 year in county jail
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge has found the Everglades Foundation’s former chief scientist Thomas Van Lent guilty of indirect criminal contempt for disobeying a court order and deleting from his computers “massive amounts of data” owned by the foundation. -
Pensacola lawsuit seeking to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for deadly terrorist attack should be tossed, U.S. magistrate says
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The families of three murdered U.S. Navy servicemen and eight others wounded when a Saudi Air Force officer with “significant ties to al-Qaeda” opened fire at Naval Air Station Pensacola in 2019 cannot sue the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for damages, a federal magistrate ruled Thursday. -
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Everglades Foundation prosecutes former top scientist for criminal contempt in case that’s roiling Florida environmentalists
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
If Marjory Stoneman Douglas had a grave, she’d be rolling in it. The pioneering environmentalist and famed “Mother of the Everglades,” whose ashes were famously scattered across Everglades National Park wilderness upon her death in 1998 at age 108, could hardly have imagined two of the Everglades’ leading champions on opposite sides in a Miami court of law. -
UPDATE: Seminole Council Chairman Marcellus Osceola Jr. re-elected; Comeback bids of James Billie and Mitchell Cypress for control of vastly rich tribe fall short
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
UPDATE May 8 – Seminole Tribal Council Chairman Marcellus Osceola Jr. was re-elected to another four-year term Monday, snuffing out the comeback hopes of two ex-chairmen, Mitchell Cypress and James Billie. -
Florida’s pick-a-justice show is experiencing technical difficulties no one saw coming
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
The group that’s supposed to independently screen candidates for an opening on Florida’s highest court has had a couple glitches along the way. -
Controversy surrounds Seminole tribe chairman Osceola as corruption allegations linger and election nears; FBI takes notice
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
On May 8, members of the Seminole Tribe of Florida will vote on who will lead their government and oversee their multi-billion-dollar Hard Rock gambling empire for the next four years.
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