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GOP bigshot Adam Kidan: A life of luxury despite owing millions in restitution from SunCruz fraud
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Ex-con Adam Kidan has owed the U.S. government $21.7 million, plus interest, in restitution since he and ex-super lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty in 2006 to fraud and conspiracy charges in the $147.5-mllion SunCruz Casinos swindle. So how, since his release from prison in 2009, has Kidan been able to live a life of luxury? -
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The ‘poster child’ for homelessness in Miami-Dade County is an unsinkable Cuban widow called Mechy
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Mechy Paez Polo is content to live in a pleasant shelter for homeless seniors now that her true home, with her husband Orlando Polo, is gone. -
How Spanish talk radio stations inundate South Florida airwaves with paranoia about rigged voting machines. And (unlike Fox) get away with it.
By Kirk Nielsen
FloridaBulldog.org
Possibly the most insane and certainly the most geographically concentrated place where ex-President Trump’s debunked rigged election claims morphed into gospel truths—including the debunked Dominion voting machine conspiracy—is South Florida’s Spanish talk radio universe. -
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Adam Kidan’s long strange trip from SunCruz scandal to big time Republican donor
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
It was the first epic South Florida scandal of the 21st Century and Adam Kidan was smack in the middle of it – a $14.5-million fraud wrapped in a congressional influence-peddling scandal inside a Mafia hit. -
The hardest case for mercy; Inside the effort to spare the Parkland school shooter
By Joe Sexton
The Marshalll Project
In the summer of 1998, Brenda Woodard and Carolyn Deakins were two of the dozens of women selling sex on the streets of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It was a desperate scene down by the 17th Street Causeway, the first bridge into the city from its south. The johns, many of them fresh arrivals from the nearby airport, would swing off U.S. 1, and conduct their business in cars along Miami Road…
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