Category: Government
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17 BSO deputies charged with PPP fraud in South Florida’s broadest police scandal in decades
By Dan Christensen
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Dozens of Broward Sheriff’s deputies face indictment in burgeoning PPP loan fraud case
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Update Oct. 12 – Broward Sheriff’s employees, including sworn deputies and civilians, began turning themselves in this morning to face impending federal fraud charges involving the theft of hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of dollars in loans from the COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program. Dozens of BSO employees are expected to be indicted later today. Federal prosecutors have scheduled a press conference for this afternoon. -
Trump’s legal defense fund should prove lucrative for ex-Republican Party of Florida chairman Gruters
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
When The New York Times reported Sunday that ex-President Donald Trump’s team was creating a legal-defense fund expected to be called the Patriot Legal Defense Fund Inc., its reporters missed the fact that the fund was actually set up and named two weeks earlier. -
What’s going on with trial court ‘consolidation’? It looks a lot like Florida-style gerrymandering
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
A new push to “consolidate” Florida courts has people talking about politics — more precisely, about gerrymandering. -
Fight within a fight: 9/11 widows and children appeal to force dismissal of thousands of wrongful death judgments given to non-heirs
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
In the 20 years since it began, the consolidated New York federal lawsuit brought by 9/11 victims has focused largely on allegations that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia aided and abetted the 19 hijackers who killed nearly 3,000 people in the al Qaeda attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. -
Victims’ lawsuit that seeks to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for 9/11 approaches make-or-break crossroads
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Seven years after thousands of 9/11 family victims won the right to sue Saudi Arabia for allegedly helping al Qaeda hijackers attack the U.S., their monumental court case is approaching a make-or-break crossroads.
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