Category: Fort Lauderdale
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Hollywood residents fear developers, city won’t stop at one 30-story tower on public beach
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Will a developer with a $50 billion portfolio put a 30-story condo tower on public oceanfront land in Hollywood? Will even more construction on the beach, one of the city’s greatest assets, turn it into an overbuilt Fort Lauderdale South? -
GOP bigshot Adam Kidan: A life of luxury despite owing millions in restitution from SunCruz fraud
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Ex-con Adam Kidan has owed the U.S. government $21.7 million, plus interest, in restitution since he and ex-super lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty in 2006 to fraud and conspiracy charges in the $147.5-mllion SunCruz Casinos swindle. So how, since his release from prison in 2009, has Kidan been able to live a life of luxury? -
State ethics commissioner Figgers, a DeSantis favorite, snags million dollar contract from Central Florida tourism district run by ex-colleague
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org -
Exiled church members seeking grace and accountability may never return to First Baptist of Fort Lauderdale
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
When flash floods of near biblical intensity swamped Fort Lauderdale in April, the waters didn’t spare the downtown landmark First Baptist Church. -
Pension fund says FL Panthers owner Viola used control of Virtu to siphon hundreds of millions of dollars away from public investors
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The billionaire owner of the Florida Panthers hockey team, Vincent Viola, is at the center of a Delaware lawsuit that alleges he’s used his control of a large publicly traded financial services company to improperly divert hundreds of millions of dollars to himself, his family and his cronies. -
Two years after Stop the Steal insurrection at the Capitol: What did Roger Stone do with money he raised?
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Days before shutting down at the end of 2022, the January 6th Committee made public a copy of Fort Lauderdale resident Roger Stone’s December 2021 deposition. Not much was reported about it because the longtime confidante of former President Donald Trump previously announced he’d invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer any questions. But…
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