Category: Issues
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Roger Stone, wife agree to pay $2.1 million to settle IRS tax case, but where will the money come from?
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Fort Lauderdale’s Roger Stone, longtime political ally of Donald Trump and a subject of last week’s January 6 committee hearing, has agreed to pay more than $2.1 million to settle the government’s tax case against he and his wife, Nydia. -
Radio Loco: A Miami reporter’s journal
By Kirk Nielsen
FloridaBulldog.org
Radio Mambí’s sale comes amid fresh scrutiny of the role of AM radio in sewing misinformation, mistrust. -
We’re at the ‘epicenter’ of the nation’s housing crisis, but Broward’s housing leaders are missing in action
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
What if there was a crisis in Broward County and the leaders responsible for helping to solve it didn’t bother to show up? We just found out. -
Black-run Miramar pays $565,000 to settle charges of reverse discrimination by trio of white ex-police officers
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Miramar’s city commission has agreed to pay $565,000 to settle a five-year-old lawsuit brought by a trio of senior white city police officers who claimed they were illegally denied promotions by a black police chief who wanted to “have his command staff mirror” Miramar’s majority minority population. -
Roger Stone offers to settle $2 million tax case after judge orders him to turn over records
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
What is Fort Lauderdale’s Roger Stone trying to hide? For 15 years, the IRS has been dunning ex-President Donald Trump’s political confidant and Stone’s wife, Nydia, for failing to pay assessed income taxes, penalties and interest for the years 2007-2011 and 2018 that now total a whopping $1,997,398.60. For years, Stone resisted paying up. Now, he wants to settle with the IRS. -
NRA’s Marion Hammer isn’t really retiring, just dodging lobbyist disclosure requirements
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Last week, the National Rifle Association announced that its longtime Tallahassee-based lobbyist Marion Hammer will “step down” but “continue to serve as an advisor to the NRA.” That’s a curious turn of a phrase. But it has a simple, unstated meaning: Hammer, 83, will soon be able to dodge once again regularly disclosing to Floridians the splendid sums the NRA slips regularly into her purse, currently more than $50,000 every three months.
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