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Miami Commissioner Miguel Gabela’s taxpayer funded legal advisor is raising political donations from developers, vendors with city business
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Jose Sanchez-Gronlier morphed quickly into a Miami city hall power broker. In three years, the Coral Gables-based attorney went from being Miami City Commissioner Miguel Gabela’s personal lawyer to his District 1 office’s congiliere, earning a taxpayer-funded annual salary of $130,000. -
Bacardi partners with billionaire Russian oligarch and member of Putin’s ‘inner circle’ for its bottling needs near Moscow
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Since 2022, the world has watched in horror as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and targeting of civilians have left hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians dead or wounded, forced 5.6 million Ukrainians to seek refuge abroad and displaced millions more inside the country. Through it all, Bacardi, the privately held spirits giant with substantial U.S. operations headquartered in Coral Gables, has continued to do business in Russia… -
Christian Ulvert is Miami-Dade’s leading PAC man, gobbling up campaign cash for local politicos
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Democratic strategist Christian Ulvert has turned a sprawling network of political action committees into one of the most powerful fundraising engines in Miami-Dade politics, collecting roughly $1.6 million since Jan. 1 so far for this year’s primary and general elections. -
Florida’s ‘Live Local’ law lets developers bypass public oversight while failing workforce renters, critics say
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Critics of a state law to boost affordable workforce housing claim it’s really a Big Builder welfare act intended to prevent local governments from vetting private-interest projects on behalf of the public. -
U.S. judge wants Trump’s Coral Gables lawyer Brito punished, but Florida Bar’s history suggests he’ll skate
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida Bar ethics reviewers aren’t likely to take direction from a federal judge and discipline Alejandro Brito, President Trump’s personal lawyer in the case of Trump v. IRS. -
Trump DOJ Memo threatens decades of disability rights protections, tests key Florida rights case
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
To little notice by the nation’s newspapers, the Trump administration recently moved to reverse decades of disability civil rights policy through a Justice Department opinion that signals an apparent sea change in how the executive branch plans to enforce the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
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