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Like Trump’s intelligence chief, ex-U.S. envoy under scrutiny for ties to sanctioned oligarch reportedly living in Miami
By Jack Davies
Mongabay
Donald Trump’s most senior intelligence official, Richard Grenell, came under scrutiny last month after it emerged he’d carried out work for sanctioned Moldovan oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc. But Grenell is not the only Washington political figure tied to the man once dubbed “Moldova’s most-feared figure.” -
FBI seeks to hide its legal arguments in 9/11 case as Senators ask Justice’s IG to investigate ‘abnormalities’
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The U.S. is asking a federal judge to allow it to file secret legal arguments in the mammoth New York lawsuit against Saudi Arabia brought by 9/11 families and survivors. -
FDA to Florida company: Stop turning silver into fools’ gold with fake COVID-19 cure
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Could silver cure COVID-19? Not according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. -
EPA proposes big expansion of Port Everglades offshore dump; time running out for public comment
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
With Floridians focused on surviving the global COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to significantly expand an underwater dump site off the coast of Fort Lauderdale. -
Miami billionaire fined in pump-and-dump stock scheme looks to cash in on COVID-19 testing
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Billionaire philanthropist and Opko Health CEO Phillip Frost, fined for his role in a pump-and-dump-stock scheme, is betting his Miami-based company can capitalize on the burgeoning market demand for coronavirus testing. -
Private, public defense lawyers race a common enemy: the coronavirus
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Miami criminal defense lawyer Edward Shohat and Gordon Weekes, the No. 2 public defender for Broward County, have something in common. Both are racing against time on behalf of a client–in Weekes’s case, many clients.
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