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Judge grants Cruz defense team right to film at crime scene as prosecutor Satz’s death penalty record becomes an issue
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Over prosecutors’ objections, Nikolas Cruz’s defense got the go-ahead Friday for a professional production company to film the “preserved” crime scene at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland where Cruz admits he shot and killed 17 students and faculty and wounded 17 others more than three years ago. -
FBI investigating Broward Sheriff Tony for suspected bid rigging, kickbacks in bleeding control kits deal
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The FBI is investigating Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony for suspected bid rigging, fraud and kickbacks stemming from BSO’s 2019 purchase of hundreds of bleeding control stations from a South Carolina company where Tony worked before becoming sheriff. -
Appeals court tosses suit by Parkland students who claimed civil rights breaches tied to 2018 massacre
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a suit filed by 15 students who claimed their civil rights were violated due to government blunders before and during the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. -
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? -
The sheriff and the school board member: how Tony and Alhadeff scratched each other’s backs
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Broward School Board Member Lori Alhadeff has raised thousands of dollars for Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony’s election campaign, and a nonprofit she leads purchased thousands of dollars in bleeding control kits sold by a company Tony founded. Now, the sheriff’s Law Enforcement Trust Fund has awarded Alhadeff’s nonprofit a grant of $8,000. -
BSO spent thousands in election year to hype ‘groundbreaking’ for training center; 9 months later inertia & an empty lot
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
One month after filing for election late last year, Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony staged an elaborate groundbreaking ceremony for what he said would be BSO’s new training center adjacent to the sheriff’s Fort Lauderdale headquarters. Nine months later, work on the $34-million project has yet to begin, and Tony’s being sued by an electrical contractor who says the sheriff stiffed him for tens of thousands of dollars in work preparing for the groundbreaking.
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