Category: Business
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As war in Ukraine rages, Bacardi finds a windfall selling booze to Russians. Ukraine adds Bacardi to list of “war sponsors”
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 liquor giant Bacardi Ltd., whose U.S. operations are based in Coral Gables, publicly pledged its support for Ukraine and announced that it had “paused exports to Russia and froze advertising” there. That was then -
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. -
Deerfield Beach’s AshBritt hits jackpot in Arizona with no-bid contracts for controversial border wall
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Donald Trump’s unfinished dream to build a “big, beautiful wall” along the U.S. border with Mexico has proven to be a multi-million bonanza for AshBritt Inc., the Deerfield Beach disaster contractor. -
Rampant cronyism, nepotism plague obscure Broward County water utility
By Bob Norman
Special to FloridaBulldog.org
As an elected official, Vincent Moretti’s job is to oversee the North Springs Improvement District (NSID), a public utility that services large portions of Coral Springs and Parkland. A big part of the 58-year-old NSID board president’s responsibility is providing a check on its mercurial manager, Rod Colon. -
Grand Jury on COVID-19 vaccine should probe governor for possible pay-to-play; Donors who got fat, no-bid contracts stuffed his political war chest
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Last week, Gov. Ron DeSantis asked the Florida Supreme Court to impanel a statewide Grand Jury to investigate “crimes and wrongdoing committed against Floridians related to the COVID-19 vaccine.” But if the 18 grand jurors and the prosecutors who will shepherd them do an actual investigation, the governor’s request should backfire unpleasantly on him and his apparent hopes for higher political office. -
The Florida money connection to Dr. Oz in the high-stakes Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The owners of longtime FP&L affiliate Asplundh Tree Experts Co., whose bright orange bucket trucks can often be seen clearing vegetation and trimming trees in neighborhoods throughout South Florida, are spending big to elect TV showman and heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz to the U.S Senate
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