Category: Issues
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U.S. Reps. Gimenez, Diaz-Balart snag millions in HUD earmarks for Li’l Abner affordable housing developer, get huge contributions to their PACs
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The heart-wrenching ousters and evictions of about 3,000 vulnerable working class and elderly residents of Sweetwater’s Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park played out for months late last year in newspapers and on television screens across South Florida. -
Miami Beach Police sergeant made millions, violated conflict of interest rules providing private security to city’s bars, nightclubs
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
For more than a decade, Miami Beach Police Sgt. Luis Corps quietly built a multimillion-dollar private security empire on the same streets he was sworn to police, flouting conflict of interest laws and misleading his superiors about who his private clients were and how much he was making on the side. -
Hollywood Mayor Levy fails to convince Broward land-use panel to put unpopular condo on public beach
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Caught between a contract and fierce opposition to erecting a luxury condo tower on a public beach, Hollywood Mayor Josh Levy tried to score a decisive victory for the name-brand developer, Jorge Perez’s Related Group. -
Broward lawyer pushes Trump election seizure in emergency order based on unproven Chinese threat
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Widespread reports last week linked Deerfield Beach lawyer Peter Ticktin to a scheme for President Trump to seize the midterm elections by way of an executive order Ticktin drafted. -
Terror, indifference and division limit ICE resistance in South Florida, insiders say
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Protesters in Minneapolis, Los Angeles and many other U.S. cities have flooded streets, emptied shops and raised awareness that most immigrants are hard workers and good neighbors. -
SaferWatch CEO’s federal bribery arrest in N.Y. has Florida sheriffs, chiefs and school officials pressing panic button
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Federal bribery charges in New York against the owner and CEO of SaferWatch, whose panic button and emergency mass alert system is popular with police and other public officials, are reverberating across Florida, but most urgently in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach.
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