Category: Department of Justice
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Bribery charges? What bribery charges? Billionaire banker, ex-FBI agent, former Puerto Rico governor get sweet deal from Bondi’s DOJ
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
One of the Justice Department’s biggest political bribery cases, set to go to trial in August, is being short-circuited by prosecutors who gave an exceedingly sweet deal to the three defendants they once declared had struck “a blow to the heart of our democracy.” -
‘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. -
As big money flows, Boca Raton’s GEO Group readies for migrant evacuation on an industrial scale
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Remember the duck test? If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. What then to make President Trump’s decision on Day One of his second, non-consecutive term to revoke President Biden’s 2021 executive order phasing out Justice Department contracts with private prison companies? -
Pam Bondi kept a secret that hurt Broward residents. Will the U.S. Senate ask her about it?
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
When Pam Bondi appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee today to answer questions and explain why she should be confirmed as the next U.S. Attorney General, there’s a Broward-centric story about her that’s telling, yet likely won’t come up. -
Presidential campaign will end, but Trump v. Clinton goes on and on
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
While his opponents deflect Donald Trump’s lie that he won in 2020 and brace for his cries of “Fraud!” if he loses next month, Trump’s lawyers are telling a federal appeals court that Democratic conspirators tried to rig the 2016 presidential election against him. -
GOP bigshot Adam Kidan: A life of luxury despite owing millions in restitution from SunCruz fraud
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Ex-con Adam Kidan has owed the U.S. government $21.7 million, plus interest, in restitution since he and ex-super lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty in 2006 to fraud and conspiracy charges in the $147.5-mllion SunCruz Casinos swindle. So how, since his release from prison in 2009, has Kidan been able to live a life of luxury?
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