Category: Business
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Judge: Waste Management has rebutted crime-fraud allegations for now
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Waste Management has successfully rebutted crime-fraud allegations that, if upheld, would have forced the trash giant to disclose confidential company records it says are protected by the attorney-client privilege. -
Florida Panthers’ 50-year takeover at Fort Lauderdale’s Holiday Park goes to court
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The stealthy deal that last year gave the owners of the Florida Panthers control of a chunk of Fort Lauderdale’s Holiday Park – including War Memorial Auditorium – for the next 50 years will soon face a judge’s scrutiny. -
Lobbyist Marc Sarnoff brings big PAC money to Miami City Hall in fight over kiosks
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Like many politicians who leave public service, former Miami City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff is parlaying his credentials to lobby on behalf of companies seeking to do business with municipal governments in Miami-Dade. One of those firms is Orange Barrel Media, a Columbus, Ohio-based information kiosk manufacturer… -
The Port Everglades mess: Millions unaccounted for or lost; the illegal dumping of untreated ship wastewater
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
“Gross mismanagement” at Port Everglades led to mass employee theft, millions of dollars in unverified county credit card purchases and millions more in apparently lost rent at the Foreign Trade Zone, according to a 337-page audit report. -
Bergeron v. Waste Management: Judge to decide if trash giant committed a crime or fraud
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Six hours of tedious testimony and legal jargon spewed in court last week laid out the “sloppiness and mistakes” that Broward Chief Judge Jack Tuter said accompanied Waste Management’s $510-million takeover of Southern Waste Systems. -
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.
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