Category: Criminal Justice
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As Florida adds firearm ‘open carry’ to ‘stand your ground,’ grocery shopping can be hazardous
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Publix shoppers may want to keep track of more than BOGOs now that customers can stroll grocery aisles flashing guns and knives like they’re roaming the range in the wild, wild West. -
Florida taxpayers paid $1.72 million to compensate ‘wrongly incarcerated’ Sidney Holmes. Did the state get it right?
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The State v. Sidney Lamar Holmes is finally over. After 34 years behind bars, he’s now two years out of prison. And with Gov. Ron DeSantis’s signature this month on a special appropriation to compensate Holmes, unanimously passed by the Legislature, Florida’s taxpayers are out $1.72 million. -
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.” -
President Donald Trump: still a convicted felon, still allowed to break Florida law with impunity
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
While federal judges say some of President Trump’s orders are illegal, Florida state officials seem to take for granted that he alone stands above the law. -
In Sunny Isles Beach offices, Trump-son-in-law Jared Kushner rakes in tens of millions from Saudis; Is he an unregistered foreign agent?
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Way back in 1951 The Miami Herald ran the Pulitzer Prize-winning project “Know Your Neighbor” that called out organized crime figures who lived in town. If U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden’s suspicions about former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law are correct, it might be time to consider an update spotlighting unregistered foreign agents. -
Ex-Everglades Foundation chief scientist Van Lent guilty of contempt, faces up to 1 year in county jail
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge has found the Everglades Foundation’s former chief scientist Thomas Van Lent guilty of indirect criminal contempt for disobeying a court order and deleting from his computers “massive amounts of data” owned by the foundation.
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