Category: Government
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Builder of collapsed FIU pedestrian bridge had troubling construction failure at Port Everglades
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Two months after last year’s fatal FIU pedestrian bridge collapse in Miami, the company that built the bridge was responsible for a troubling construction failure at Port Everglades. -
High-living Roger Stone, search warrants and more than $1 million in unpaid income taxes
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The day before the FBI arrested Roger Stone during a pre-dawn raid at his rented, canal-front home in ritzy Las Olas Isles, the presiding U.S. magistrate authorized a pair of sealed search warrants… -
Is Florida’s prison diet strictly kosher? Who knows? U.S. monitor has backed off
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Court oversight of Florida’s kosher diet program, prison variety, appears to be dissolving like a sugar cube in hot tea. -
Federal Elections Commission reopens corruption case against ex-U.S. Rep. David Rivera
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
The Federal Elections Commission will get another crack at holding former Miami congressman David Rivera accountable for his role in an infamous South Florida campaign scandal. -
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Construction giant Odebrecht goes after former top So. Fla execs for stealing trade secrets
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Odebrecht, the controversial global conglomerate that has an extensive portfolio of big-ticket government construction projects across Florida, is accusing three of its former top South Florida executives of pillaging trade secrets, company data and clients over the last two years. -
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SFWMD’s last minute move to extend sugarcane lease triggers hearing demand
By Katherine Lewin
FloridaBulldog.org
Nineteen years ago, the South Florida Water Management District bought 16,158 rural acres south of Lake Okeechobee leased for sugar cane farming as part of the massive Everglades restoration project. But one night last month, just hours before the district’s morning meeting, a resolution was quietly added to the governing board’s agenda that would extend the lease to a subsidiary of Florida Crystals, delaying restoration for as long as eight years.
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