Category: Public Corruption
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Bribery charges? What bribery charges? Billionaire banker, ex-FBI agent, former Puerto Rico governor get sweet deal from Bondi’s DOJ
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
One of the Justice Department’s biggest political bribery cases, set to go to trial in August, is being short-circuited by prosecutors who gave an exceedingly sweet deal to the three defendants they once declared had struck “a blow to the heart of our democracy.” -
As big money flows, Boca Raton’s GEO Group readies for migrant evacuation on an industrial scale
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Remember the duck test? If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. What then to make President Trump’s decision on Day One of his second, non-consecutive term to revoke President Biden’s 2021 executive order phasing out Justice Department contracts with private prison companies? -
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. -
Ambitious Florida CFO Patronis and the case of the curious $50,000 political contribution
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis hadn’t even put a tooth under his pillow before his political action committee raked in the curious $50,000 contribution that foreshadowed his office’s launch of Operation Tooth Fairy. -
What to do about Broward Sheriff, his lies and scalding FDLE report? Three months on, Gov. DeSantis can’t, or won’t, make a decision
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Three months into pondering what to do about Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony, who public- corruption agents found repeatedly lied over the years on official records, Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to ponder as an anxious sheriff’s office wonders what’s going on. -
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Ex-Congressman used ‘zombie’ campaign cash to fund thousands in luxury travel, meals and other personal expenses
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Just in time for Halloween, “zombie” campaign cash is baaaack. Retired eight-term Florida Congressman Ander Crenshaw has agreed to cough up thousands of dollars to settle civil charges that for up to two years after leaving office he used donated money from his zombie campaign account to pay for luxury hotel stays, meals and other personal expenses.
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