Category: Florida
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Three on Florida commission decide parole for thousands of inmates
By Deirdra Funchson
JJIE
Whether or not to let certain inmates out of prison is a decision that falls to the Florida Commission on Offender Review (FCOR), consisting of three commissioners appointed by the governor and confirmed by the state Senate. -
Ex-BSO deputy used immigrants for sex. Now he runs a justice center
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Ex-BSO deputy Jonathan Bleiweiss is back after 45 months in prison for using his badge and gun to coerce sex from seven vulnerable men. Today, he’s a self-styled champion of justice. -
Florida’s Longest-Serving Inmates: They Get Older, Sicker and More Well-behaved
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org -
Bergeron v. Waste Management: Judge to decide if trash giant committed a crime or fraud
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Six hours of tedious testimony and legal jargon spewed in court last week laid out the “sloppiness and mistakes” that Broward Chief Judge Jack Tuter said accompanied Waste Management’s $510-million takeover of Southern Waste Systems. -
What Waste Management wanted to hide: how it duped state, federal antitrust regulators
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Newly public documents show that attorneys for the trash giant duped federal and state antitrust regulators with misleading statements and outright misrepresentations about what would happen to local competition – and municipal recycling rates – after it acquired the assets of Southern Waste Systems (SWS) and its affiliate Sun Recycling. -
NRA’s Marion Hammer got illegal loans from nonprofit she runs, Unified Sportsmen of Florida
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer has obtained several apparently illegal loans over the years from Unified Sportsmen of Florida, the Tallahassee nonprofit she founded and runs, Florida Bulldog has found.
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