Author: Dan Christensen
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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. -
Head of Miami FBI office Piro retires; Bid-rigging probe of Broward Sheriff Tony returns to Miami
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Miami FBI Special Agent in Charge George Piro is retiring, after sources say he was shown the door by FBI headquarters in Washington following a complaint by a subordinate that Piro improperly transferred his office’s bid-rigging investigation of Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony to South Carolina. -
Florida commission to consider first step toward stripping Broward Sheriff Tony of his license to be a police officer
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A panel of the Florida commission that oversees police to make sure they are competent and ethical will meet on Tuesday to decide whether there is probable cause to revoke Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony’s law enforcement certification. -
New Miramar city manager Virgin gets a sweet job, then a sweet deal in his DUI case from Broward State Attorney Pryor
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
May was a very good month for Roy Livingston Virgin. First, he was hired to be city manager of Miramar for five years with an annual salary of $270,000. Then, the office of Broward State Attorney Harold Pryor placed him in a DUI diversion program in violation of its own written rules. -
Broward’s jails have hundreds of cameras inside, but Sheriff Tony won’t release video when deputies are accused of brutalizing inmates
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A “disturbing trend” of the brutalization of inmates in Broward County’s jails has prompted Broward’s Public Defender to call for “a full and transparent investigation into how and why these incidents continue to happen.”
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