Category: Consumer
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Cuban-American influencer Alex Otaola facing defamation suit by ex-ally
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Alex Otaola, a popular Trumpian, anti-communist influencer behind a recall petition against Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, allegedly orchestrated and amplified a smear campaign against a former ally who bankrolled his rise to fame. -
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Miami Beach company’s ads promising patients a ‘dream body’ with minimal risk get little scrutiny
By Fred Schulte
KFF Health News
Lenia Watson-Burton, a 37-year-old U.S. Navy administrator, expected that cosmetic surgery would get rid of stubborn fat quickly and easily — just as the web advertising promised. Instead, she died three days later. -
‘Zombie’ foreclosures and mutating mortgage lenders plague Floridians in epilogue of 2000s subprime scandal
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Karina Lopez belongs to a club nobody wants to join: foreclosure defendants who once thought their mortgage problems were over. They most definitely are not. -
How a Broward crook who stole $100 million got a Murder One charge cut to a misdemeanor
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Q Link Wireless CEO Issa Asad and his company pleaded guilty on Oct.15 in Miami federal court to bilking more than $100 million from a government program that provides free or discounted phone service to people in need. The sentence prosecutors are recommending: five years, which is equal to one year for every $20 million he stole. Ten years earlier, while the feds say Asad was in the middle of committing his enormous fraud, he got an even better deal in Broward Circuit Court. -
Device makers have funneled billions to orthopedic surgeons who use their products
By Fred Schulte
FloridaBulldog.org -
Travel insurance’s tricky language leaves customers without refunds during COVID-19
By Ann Henson Feltgen
FloridaBulldog.org
Jack and Vicky Brennan looked forward to a sailing trip out of Grenada in July 2020. Months earlier as COVID-19 got worldwide attention, the St. Petersburg couple decided to purchase travel insurance, in case they couldn’t go. Now, the company won’t pay.
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