Tag: Florida Commission on Ethics
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State prosecutors decline to file any criminal charges against Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Two years after it began, a multi-faceted state investigation of Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony has ended without the filing of any criminal charges. -
Florida ‘ethics’ watchdog digs up loophole, gives Broward’s Lamar Fisher a pass for $565K profit on land sales to agency he once led
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
The state’s ethics enforcer looked into a complaint about Broward County Commissioner Lamar Fisher’s personally lucrative land deals with Pompano Beach, where he was a growth-loving mayor, and found nothing wrong. Complaint dismissed… -
Antonacci gets a new job and an old problem: the appearance of a conflict of interest with his wife
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Outgoing Broward Supervisor of Elections Peter Antonacci was named Tuesday by Florida’s Cabinet to be the next Chief Judge/Executive Director of the Florida Division of Administrative Hearings. But his new job creates an immediate appearance of a conflict of interest involving his wife. -
N.Y. figured out NRA’s dishonesty, but Florida Senate, ethics commission bootlicked NRA’s Hammer
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Corruption. The dictionary defines it as “dishonest or illegal behavior, especially by powerful people.” How else to explain the failures of both the Florida Senate and the Florida ethics commission to hold powerful National Rifle Association lobbyist and board member Marion Hammer accountable for not disclosing more than $1.7 million in arguably illegal payments she received from the NRA between 2007 and 2018? -
NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer’s hefty ‘consulting’ fees a focus of New York AG’s regulatory probe
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida National Rifle Association lobbyist Marion Hammer was identified Thursday in a New York Attorney General’s lawsuit as being the beneficiary of hundreds of thousands of dollars in NRA funds illegally diverted to her as part of an audacious self-dealing scheme led by NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre. -
Pretzel logic, NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer and the Florida Commission on Ethics
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Why did the Florida ethics commission vote to let NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer off without sending her case to the governor and cabinet for a possible public hearing, further investigation and, if necessary, an “appropriate penalty’’? The answer involves a kind of pretzel logic…
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