Category: Federal
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Pension fund says FL Panthers owner Viola used control of Virtu to siphon hundreds of millions of dollars away from public investors
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The billionaire owner of the Florida Panthers hockey team, Vincent Viola, is at the center of a Delaware lawsuit that alleges he’s used his control of a large publicly traded financial services company to improperly divert hundreds of millions of dollars to himself, his family and his cronies. -
Ron DeSantis accused of illegal acts of torture against Guantanamo detainees when he was a Navy JAG officer
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Before he was governor, before he was a congressman, Ron DeSantis was a Lt. Commander and JAG lawyer in the U.S. Navy, serving at the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention camp in Cuba and Fallujah during the Iraq War. -
Fifty years after Roe, Florida targets abortion pill; Women’s health care options dwindle
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
New Florida laws threaten pharmacists and doctors by treating abortion pills like contraband and penalizing their use outside strict limits. -
Conservancy rakes in cash at taxpayer-owned Miami Beach Botanical Garden
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
A non-profit group turned the Miami Beach Botanical Garden into a cash cow by obtaining federal pandemic aid funds and charging top dollar for hosting booze-filled events. But the Miami Beach Garden Conservancy fattened up its coffers without giving the city its fair share, and without contributing any money for maintenance of the taxpayer-owned flora facility, an internal audit found. -
Two years after Stop the Steal insurrection at the Capitol: What did Roger Stone do with money he raised?
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Days before shutting down at the end of 2022, the January 6th Committee made public a copy of Fort Lauderdale resident Roger Stone’s December 2021 deposition. Not much was reported about it because the longtime confidante of former President Donald Trump previously announced he’d invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer any questions. But… -
The Florida money connection to Dr. Oz in the high-stakes Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The owners of longtime FP&L affiliate Asplundh Tree Experts Co., whose bright orange bucket trucks can often be seen clearing vegetation and trimming trees in neighborhoods throughout South Florida, are spending big to elect TV showman and heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz to the U.S Senate
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