Category: Politics
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Ex-Congressman David Rivera loses ‘last-ditch’ move to avoid $456,000 campaign fine
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
In a severe rebuke of David Rivera, U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke denied the former Miami Republican congressman’s “last-ditch effort” to dodge a $456,000 judgment against him tied to his decade-old federal elections campaign violations. -
Sex, Trumpsters, and South Florida’s weirdest court case
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Paternity/child-support cases rarely make the news, if for no other reason than Florida’s law and courts envelop them in secrecy. But the law and the courts didn’t reckon with the likes of A.J. Delgado. -
Conservative Florida pundit awaiting trial for allegedly funneling Russian money to Trump campaign dies
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A longtime conservative political commentator and author under federal indictment for conspiring to illegally funnel Russian money to the Trump campaign in 2016 has died. -
Bankruptcy filings, financial woes dog surprise Miami commission candidate Jeffrey Watson
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
During the 2010s, Miami City Commissioner Jeffrey Watson was twice unsuccessful in securing bankruptcy protection, fell behind on more than $1 million on his home mortgage, couldn’t pay a $129,284 civil judgment and owed $26,933 in income tax to the Internal Revenue Service. Now, the former Bill Clinton White House aide is poised to upend the Miami City Commission District 5 race after pledging not to run when he was appointed to the seat 11 months ago. -
Pay-to-play lives in FEC decision not to enforce ban on political contributions by Boca prison contractor The GEO Group
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
In a ruling that undermines an 81-year-old anti-corruption law prohibiting pay-to-play political contributions by federal contractors, an impotent Federal Election Commission last week disclosed that it allowed Boca Raton private prison contractor The GEO Group to get away with making hundreds of thousands of dollars of otherwise illegal contributions to Super PACs. -
COVID death undercuts Republican efforts for FEC disclosure, ‘election integrity’
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The Hillsborough County Republican Executive Committee has a problem. The person who submits its electronic reports to the Federal Elections Commission died Saturday without telling others in the party how to use his software.
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