Author: Dan Christensen
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What Waste Management wanted to hide: how it duped state, federal antitrust regulators
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Newly public documents show that attorneys for the trash giant duped federal and state antitrust regulators with misleading statements and outright misrepresentations about what would happen to local competition – and municipal recycling rates – after it acquired the assets of Southern Waste Systems (SWS) and its affiliate Sun Recycling. -
Declassified, but not public. Miami judge asked to release key 9/11 name
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
An attorney for Florida Bulldog filed court papers this week asking a Miami federal judge to make public “one critical piece of information” – the name of the person who tasked two Saudis living in Southern California with assisting the 9/11 suicide hijackers. -
Justice Dept. won’t cite state secrets to hide identity of person who ‘tasked’ Saudis to aid 9/11 hijackers, but Barr withholds rest of hidden info in 2012 report
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The Justice Department declined to cite state secrets to hide the identity of the person who ‘tasked’ Saudis to aid two 9/11 hijackers, but Attorney General William Barr did assert the legal privilege to withhold other censored information in a a 2012 FBI report. -
NRA’s Marion Hammer got illegal loans from nonprofit she runs, Unified Sportsmen of Florida
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer has obtained several apparently illegal loans over the years from Unified Sportsmen of Florida, the Tallahassee nonprofit she founded and runs, Florida Bulldog has found. -
U.S. Attorney General to decide whether a key name in 9/11 case is a ‘state secret’
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
U.S. Attorney General William Barr has until Friday to decide whether to take the unusual step of asserting a “state secrets privilege” to conceal who tasked a pair of Saudis living in Southern California with helping two 9/11 hijackers. -
U.S. judge orders release of FBI records in Sarasota probe that may tie Saudi royals to 9/11 hijackers
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A federal judge has ruled the FBI unlawfully withheld from the Florida Bulldog key sections of records of its investigation of a Saudi family that fled Sarasota two weeks before the 9/11 attacks – leaving behind cars, clothes, furniture, food and other belongings.
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