Category: Federal
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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 -
FEC deadlocks on ‘serious’ Cindy Yang case; Republican loyalists make Trump ’53-0′ in FEC enforcement cases
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Remember Cindy Yang? She’s the South Florida massage parlor owner who gained notoriety in 2019 for marketing tourism packages to Chinese businessmen featuring access to American politicians, including then-President Trump. A deadlocked FEC has decided not to investigate her case. -
DeSantis looking to oust Sheriff Gregory Tony? He gets to replace him if he waits til after September 5th
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
There’s an interesting date on next month’s calendar that’s making the rounds in Broward and Tallahassee. September 5th is supposedly the big day. -
After all these years, Marco Rubio still hasn’t figured out how to comply with federal campaign fundraising laws
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Republican Marco Rubio, Florida’s senior U.S. senator, has been in office for more than a decade. You’d think by now he and his minions would have read, understood and complied with federal campaign fundraising law. Nope.
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