Tag: Hallandale Beach
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Hallandale city manager calls in special auditor to review property bought from ex-congressman
By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
New Hallandale Beach City Manager Renee Crichton has hired an independent auditor to review the controversial $1.1 million purchase last year of property from a charter school company run by former Broward County Congressman Peter Deutsch. -
Hallandale commissioners agree to be quizzed about business deals, handling of tax dollars
By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
The Broward Inspector General’s probe of Hallandale Beach financial management practices has reached a critical stage: the questioning of the five members of the city commission this week. -
Broward IG questions former Hallandale commissioner about CRA deals, newspaper loan
By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
A former Hallandale Beach commissioner said he voluntarily met with Broward Inspector General investigators Monday who questioned him about the city’s embattled Community Redevelopment Agency, its purchase of property once owned by group headed by Vice Mayor Anthony Sanders and a city loan to a local newspaper. -
Hallandale’s generous loans to private surgery center raise more questions about city program
By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
The owner of a private, for profit surgical center received two $100,000 taxpayer-backed business loans from Hallandale Beach after city officials changed guidelines that previously had allowed for only one such loan. -
Sweet deal for owners of Hallandale newspaper that features mayor as columnist
By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
A weekly newspaper in Hallandale Beach got a $50,000 city “loan” under terms so favorable that half of it – $25,000 – amounted to a taxpayer giveaway because the city did not require it to be repaid.
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