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Answers to public questions about Broward trash disposal will have to wait as Bergeron v. Waste Management trial is delayed
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A blockbuster courtroom showdown over a $525-million acquisition made by Waste Management to reestablish its Broward trash disposal monopoly, set to begin this week, has been postponed until next year. -
Under oath, AG Barr and other top Trump officials invoked ‘state secrets privilege’ to hide FBI 9/11 report with no state secrets
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Long before last month’s release of a 2016 FBI report about Operation Encore, the bureau’s probe into possible Saudi complicity in 9/11, top Trump administration officials swore under “penalty of perjury” that information in the report was a “state secret” whose public release was likely to cause “significant harm to the national security.” -
9/11 plaintiffs move to seize $7 billion in Taliban assets in the U.S.; Justice Department ponders whether to intervene
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The Taliban’s August takeover of Afghanistan has prompted 9/11 plaintiffs to ask the Federal Reserve of New York to seize that government’s assets to satisfy a $7-billion judgment assessed against the Taliban for its previous government-sponsored acts of terrorism and support for al Qaeda that resulted in “murder and mayhem” on 9/11. -
Pay-to-play lives in FEC decision not to enforce ban on political contributions by Boca prison contractor The GEO Group
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
In a ruling that undermines an 81-year-old anti-corruption law prohibiting pay-to-play political contributions by federal contractors, an impotent Federal Election Commission last week disclosed that it allowed Boca Raton private prison contractor The GEO Group to get away with making hundreds of thousands of dollars of otherwise illegal contributions to Super PACs. -
COVID death undercuts Republican efforts for FEC disclosure, ‘election integrity’
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The Hillsborough County Republican Executive Committee has a problem. The person who submits its electronic reports to the Federal Elections Commission died Saturday without telling others in the party how to use his software. -
9/11 Families’ lawyer to Judge Netburn: Encore document shows ‘a cancer’ within Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
UPDATE – Sept. 18 – Agreeing with arguments made by lawyers for the 9/11 Families, a federal magistrate has extended until April 1 the deadline for filing expert reports. The delay will allow time for experts for both sides to digest a mountain of potential evidence about possible Saudi Arabian complicity in the 2001 terrorist attacks that the FBI and other government agencies are expected to declassify and make public through March under the terms of President Biden’s recent executive order.
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