Category: Attorney General
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Bondi’s office ducks questions about Waste Management deal as Broward recycling contracts expire
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Office is ducking questions about why she never alerted Broward cities and consumers about pricing and other protections secured for them in 2015 in exchange for not opposing Waste Management’s $525-million acquisition of Southern Waste Systems and Sun Recycling. -
How America Got Hooked On A Deadly Drug
By Fred Schulte
Kaiser Health News
Purdue Pharma left almost nothing to chance in its whirlwind marketing of its new painkiller OxyContin. From 1996 to 2002, Purdue pursued nearly every avenue in the drug supply and prescription sales chain — a strategy now cast as reckless and illegal in more than 1,500 federal civil lawsuits across the country. -
Republican Party recycled Waste Management contributions to Bondi before antitrust deal
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
In December 2015, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office cut a secret antitrust deal with Waste Management that allowed it to complete its big money acquisition of Southern Waste Systems and Sun Recycling, including Sun’s Broward recycling facilities. In the six years before, as Bondi campaigned for election and re-election, Waste Management contributed more than $150,000 to the Republican Party of Florida, Gov. Rick Scott and Bondi. -
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Bondi’s office doesn’t want to answer questions about Waste Management antitrust probe
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida’s top antitrust attorney is seeking to quash a Broward subpoena that seeks to force her to answer questions about the state’s review of Waste Management’s $525-million takeover of Sun Recycling. -
Attorney General Bondi gives Broward Health deep discount in fraud settlement
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Eighteen months ago, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office demanded Broward Health pay more than $5.3 million to settle state Medicaid fraud claims uncovered during a federal whistleblower probe that cost Broward Health $69.5 million. -
Huge debt-relief fraud in Pompano Beach bilks $70 million from thousands of victims
By Joseph A. Mann Jr.
FloridaBulldog.org
In a debt-relief scheme that affected about 15,000 people across the country, three telemarketing executives headquartered in Pompano Beach and using a branch in Panama bilked victims out of an estimated $70 million, authorities say.
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