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Miami-Dade Mayor Levine Cava’s PAC got $100K from Li’l Abner developer, she helped him secure $9 million in affordable housing funding
By Dan Christensenl and Cassidy Winegarden
FloridaBulldog.org
A political action committee that fundraises for Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava took $100,000 from companies run by the controversial developer of Sweetwater’s now empty Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park. Her PAC accepted the money as she helped the developer obtain $9 million in government funding for his affordable housing project Abner III during her 2024 bid for re-election. -
Billions at stake as Port Everglades dredging project puts fragile reef system at risk
By Kailey Aiken
FloridaBulldog.org
Coral reefs across the east coast of Florida, once teeming with sea life and bursts of color, have become a shadow of what they once were, deteriorated into barren, monochrome plains. The causes are many, scientists say. -
Miami appeals judge fighting ethics charges says First Amendment protects her scrappy texts to state attorney
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Miami appeals court Judge Bronwyn Miller is trying to make a First Amendment case out of the ethics charges she’s fighting in the Florida Supreme Court. -
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. -
Trump campaign mouthpiece Jason Miller threatens judge in his paternity case
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Jason Miller, the Washington D.C. lobbyist and ex-mouthpiece for Donald Trump’s presidential campaigns, is accused of criminally threatening a state judge who consequently stepped down from presiding over his paternity case in Miami-Dade County.
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