Category: Business
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FBI investigating Broward Sheriff Tony for suspected bid rigging, kickbacks in bleeding control kits deal
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The FBI is investigating Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony for suspected bid rigging, fraud and kickbacks stemming from BSO’s 2019 purchase of hundreds of bleeding control stations from a South Carolina company where Tony worked before becoming sheriff. -
Siblings wage brutal court war for control of Babun clan’s $100 million Miami shipping empire
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
As president and CEO of Antillean Marine Shipping Corp., Sara Babun lords over a Miami River business empire worth at least an estimated $100 million. But a toxic sibling rivalry with her brother, Jose Jesus Babun, threatens to upend the shipping and logistics enterprise that their late father, Jose Babun Selman, co-founded nearly 60 years ago. -
Bergeron vs Waste Management trial nears; focus on legitimacy of $525-million recycling deal
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Five years of complaints, amended complaints, and seemingly endless hearings, motions and incremental judicial orders later, the epic legal struggle between Waste Management and competitor Ron Bergeron is finally set for a non-jury trial later this year. -
DeSantis gave son of billionaire Trump buddy millions in no-bid COVID contracts
By Daniel Ducassi
FloridaBulldog.org
Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration has given more than $4 million in no-bid, coronavirus-related state contracts to a social media startup co-founded based in New York City and led by the son of a South Florida billionaire and prominent supporter of President Donald Trump. -
DeSantis choice for COVID isolation centers was Republican donor who faced federal ‘kickback’ suit
By Daniel Ducassi
FloridaBulldog.org
Gov. Ron DeSantis’s pick to provide COVID isolation centers in Florida was a Republican donor who faced a federal kickback suit. -
Miami-Dade rock miners continue to blast away with help from Legislature
By Ann Henson Feltgen
FloridaBulldog.org
Miramar Mayor Wayne Messam has lambasted as virtually worthless a new state program to monitor rock blasting in northwestern Miami-Dade in response to residents’ complaints that it reverberates powerfully through nearby homes.
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