Author: Dan Christensen
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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. -
We’re at the ‘epicenter’ of the nation’s housing crisis, but Broward’s housing leaders are missing in action
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
What if there was a crisis in Broward County and the leaders responsible for helping to solve it didn’t bother to show up? We just found out. -
Black-run Miramar pays $565,000 to settle charges of reverse discrimination by trio of white ex-police officers
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Miramar’s city commission has agreed to pay $565,000 to settle a five-year-old lawsuit brought by a trio of senior white city police officers who claimed they were illegally denied promotions by a black police chief who wanted to “have his command staff mirror” Miramar’s majority minority population. -
Roger Stone offers to settle $2 million tax case after judge orders him to turn over records
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
What is Fort Lauderdale’s Roger Stone trying to hide? For 15 years, the IRS has been dunning ex-President Donald Trump’s political confidant and Stone’s wife, Nydia, for failing to pay assessed income taxes, penalties and interest for the years 2007-2011 and 2018 that now total a whopping $1,997,398.60. For years, Stone resisted paying up. Now, he wants to settle with the IRS. -
NRA’s Marion Hammer isn’t really retiring, just dodging lobbyist disclosure requirements
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Last week, the National Rifle Association announced that its longtime Tallahassee-based lobbyist Marion Hammer will “step down” but “continue to serve as an advisor to the NRA.” That’s a curious turn of a phrase. But it has a simple, unstated meaning: Hammer, 83, will soon be able to dodge once again regularly disclosing to Floridians the splendid sums the NRA slips regularly into her purse, currently more than $50,000 every three months. -
Police standards panel finds “probable cause” to consider revoking Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony’s police certification
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A four-person panel of the state commission that certifies police officers found probable cause Tuesday to revoke Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony’s license to carry a badge and a gun.
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