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  • Gov. Scott’s blind trust deviates from U.S. model; Florida law omits federal safeguards

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    Gov. Scott’s blind trust deviates from U.S. model; Florida law omits federal safeguards

    By Dan Christensen
    BrowardBulldog.org
    When Florida’s Commission on Ethics OK’d Gov. Rick Scott’s blind trust last September it acted after being told by the governor’s lawyers that it was “modeled on the blind trust of the federal Office of Government Ethics.” But the governor’s blind trust – packed with more than $70 million in Scott’s stocks, bonds and other financial assets – deviates substantially from the federal model.

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