Category: Business
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Sheriff Tony’s PAC nets 10K from employee of company that got $750K BSO bleed kits contract
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Two weeks after BSO paid South Carolina’s North American Rescue LLC as much as $750,000 last year to buy bleeding-control kits, the company’s CEO contributed $5,000 to Sheriff Gregory Tony’s political action committee. Eleven days ago, the PAC reported getting $10,000 from an “unemployed” South Carolina woman who in fact works for North American. -
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How West Park’s financial shenanigans hurt a small business
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The tiny Broward town of West Park celebrated the opening last year of its first new park since its creation in 2005. But the head of the company that built Water Tower Park now says city officials’ financial shenanigans exposed the public to potential drinking water contamination, and forced his small business to play ball in a scheme to defraud the county. -
SFWMD colleagues award $9 million to Commissioner Ron Bergeron’s construction firm
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Commissioner Ron Bergeron had a rewarding experience at this month’s Zoom meeting of the governing board of the South Florida Water Management District. His colleagues voted unanimously to award his company another $9 million to complete construction of a storm water treatment project in Martin County. -
Broward judge won’t block Florida Panthers 50-year lease at Holiday Park
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A Broward judge Tuesday dismissed a legal challenge that sought to block Fort Lauderdale’s controversial deal with the owners of the Florida Panthers, giving them control of a chunk of Holiday Park, including War Memorial Auditorium, for 50 years. -
Broward commissioner cashed in on land sales to Pompano CRA he recently led
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Broward County Commissioner Lamar Fisher and his partners reaped a $565,000 profit when they sold land to the Pompano Beach urban renewal agency that Fisher chaired for 11 years. -
Sheriff Tony gave raises, promotions to BSO employees who moonlight for wife’s firm
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Since taking office 16 months ago, Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony has promoted and/or given tidy raises to five BSO employees who moonlight for Blue Spear Solutions, the company founded by Tony and now run by his wife.
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