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Answers to public questions about Broward trash disposal will have to wait as Bergeron v. Waste Management trial is delayed
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A blockbuster courtroom showdown over a $525-million acquisition made by Waste Management to reestablish its Broward trash disposal monopoly, set to begin this week, has been postponed until next year. -
Bergeron vs Waste Management trial nears; focus on legitimacy of $525-million recycling deal
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Five years of complaints, amended complaints, and seemingly endless hearings, motions and incremental judicial orders later, the epic legal struggle between Waste Management and competitor Ron Bergeron is finally set for a non-jury trial later this year. -
The Waste Management story: Big money political donations and regulators who sit on their hands
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Eight months ago a Broward judge determined that it is more likely than not that Waste Management committed a crime or fraud in connection with its attempts to influence federal and state antitrust regulators. What have those authorities done about it? Nothing, apparently. -
Waste Management uses lack of media coverage to argue its internal records should be kept secret
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Last month, Broward Chief Judge Jack Tuter ruled that Waste Management’s internal records about antitrust investigations of its buyout of a competitor should be unsealed. The public has a “right to know and to understand” the transaction’s “significant consequences” on competition and the price citizens pay for trash disposal, the judge said. Now… -
As Broward recycling crisis boils, Bondi’s antitrust regulators kept a secret that could cost cities
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
State antitrust regulators who OK’d Waste Management’s $525-million buyout of the company that handles recycling for most Broward cities did so only after being assured that those cities would be allowed to renew their contracts this year on the same terms and conditions. -
Huge debt-relief fraud in Pompano Beach bilks $70 million from thousands of victims
By Joseph A. Mann Jr.
FloridaBulldog.org
In a debt-relief scheme that affected about 15,000 people across the country, three telemarketing executives headquartered in Pompano Beach and using a branch in Panama bilked victims out of an estimated $70 million, authorities say.
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