Category: Ethics
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DeSantis ends 50 years of ethics oversight by hobbling state and local investigators
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
The late Gov. Reubin Askew, who helped fashion the Sunshine Law and ethics rules for state government, recalled in an oral history that when Florida politicians saw this major reform brewing in the mid-1960s, “it just scared them to death.” Now their successors have little to fear. -
Waste Management scholarships gifted to Cooper City commissioner’s twins may violate ethics laws
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
On Jan. 29, Cooper City Commissioner Lisa Mallozzi certified that she had completed four hours of annual required ethics training. She did the same for 2022 and 2023. Unfortunately, there was no requirement that she remember what she was taught. -
More ethics turmoil as Florida AG’s chief ethics prosecutor quits amid probe she misused job to query state database
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The head of the Florida Attorney General’s Ethics Bureau, which prosecutes cases before the ethics commission, quit abruptly last month after being confronted with evidence she misused her position to improperly query Florida’s Highway Safety and Motor Vehicle database. -
Whitewash at Florida ethics commission as commissioner Freddie Figgers beats ‘speeding ticket’
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
After listening to a whitewash proffered by its general counsel, Florida’s Commission on Ethics Friday gave absolution to ethics commissioner Freddie Figgers for failing to file a required financial disclosure form for 2021. -
Florida Commission on Ethics set to cancel $1,500 fine for one of its own
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Believe it or not. Florida’s ethically challenged Commission on Ethics is poised to waive a $1,500 fine for one of its own commissioners. -
No Senate confirmation? No problem for Moms for Liberty boss on Florida Commission on Ethics
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The fix, as they say, is in. Typically, it’s hard to know for sure before events play out. But in the matter of Florida Senate confirmation for Gov. Ron DeSantis’s pick to sit on the Florida Commission on Ethics – Moms for Liberty co-founder Tina Descovich – the proof is in the state’s corrupt, somewhat-hidden process.
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