Category: Government
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As Marco Rubio’s Senate re-election campaign racks up millions, his failed 2016 presidential campaign still owes vendors more than $800,000
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio has for years cultivated a reputation as a debt maven. He co-introduced a bill in September to “begin to rein in our mounting debt crisis.” A decade ago, Rubio told President Obama that under his leadership America was becoming a “deadbeat nation.” Rubio, 50, knows a thing or two about debt and deadbeats… -
Carnival’s Arison, Donald faced threat of criminal contempt before signing guilty plea to company’s probation violation
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Facing a federal court hearing to determine whether they should be held in criminal contempt, Carnival cruise honchos Micky Arison and Arnold Donald appear to have had twin epiphanies about their multi-million-dollar leadership failures. -
Carnival’s corporate culture assailed by feds as Arison inks new criminal plea deal pledging environmental reforms
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Princess Cruise Lines, wholly owned by Miami-based cruise giant Carnival Corporation & plc, pleaded guilty a second time Tuesday to violating probation stemming from its expensive 2017 felony convictions for environmental crimes and a subsequent cover-up. -
Waging legal war to make Miami Springs comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
For nearly five years, the City of Miami Springs has refused to make sidewalks and public parking spaces near a 60-year-old disabled resident’s home wheelchair accessible. Instead, the city has engaged in a legal war with Theodore Karantsalis by claiming he waited too long in taking action against Miami Springs over making sidewalks and parking spaces accessible to the handicapped. -
Conservative Florida pundit awaiting trial for allegedly funneling Russian money to Trump campaign dies
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A longtime conservative political commentator and author under federal indictment for conspiring to illegally funnel Russian money to the Trump campaign in 2016 has died. -
Biden moves to slow use of trains to haul hazardous LNG, but Trump’s permits let LNG ‘bomb trains’ roll on FEC tracks
By Ann Henson-Feltgen
FloridaBulldog.org
The Biden administration has proposed a rule that would temporarily halt the transportation of liquified natural gas (LNG) by rail – except in three states, including Florida, where those “bomb trains” regularly haul the highly flammable material through heavily populated neighborhoods along the Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) tracks.
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