Author: Dan Christensen
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Broward judge won’t block Florida Panthers 50-year lease at Holiday Park
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A Broward judge Tuesday dismissed a legal challenge that sought to block Fort Lauderdale’s controversial deal with the owners of the Florida Panthers, giving them control of a chunk of Holiday Park, including War Memorial Auditorium, for 50 years. -
DeSantis rush job: Records show feeble FDLE screening of Broward Sheriff Tony
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office didn’t ask the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to conduct a background check on Gregory Tony until the day before DeSantis announced that Tony was his choice to be Broward’s next sheriff, according to state records obtained by Florida Bulldog. -
Amid nationwide racial unrest, renewed interest in Broward’s most horrific miscarriage of justice
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
For more than a decade it’s been publicly apparent that Jerry Frank Townsend, a black man, was framed by Broward Sheriff’s Office, Fort Lauderdale and Miami police detectives who coerced him into confessing to nearly two dozen sex murders of African-American women and children that he didn’t do. -
While a Coral Springs cop, Sheriff Tony used city email to obtain records, build his private training business
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
In his final year as a police sergeant in Coral Springs in 2016, Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony used his police email account to forward various law enforcement records, including a sensitive FBI report, to himself at his private safety training business. -
Sheriff Tony gave raises, promotions to BSO employees who moonlight for wife’s firm
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Since taking office 16 months ago, Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony has promoted and/or given tidy raises to five BSO employees who moonlight for Blue Spear Solutions, the company founded by Tony and now run by his wife. -
BSO spent big on bleed control kits from sheriff’s ex-company, then his PAC got $5,000 contribution from kit vendor
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The Broward Sheriff’s Office has paid out as much as $750,000 to buy bleeding control kits from a South Carolina company that Sheriff Gregory Tony did business with before he became sheriff, and where he worked as an executive for more than a year.
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