Tag: Ron DeSantis
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DeSantis rush job: Records show feeble FDLE screening of Broward Sheriff Tony
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office didn’t ask the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to conduct a background check on Gregory Tony until the day before DeSantis announced that Tony was his choice to be Broward’s next sheriff, according to state records obtained by Florida Bulldog. -
While a Coral Springs cop, Sheriff Tony used city email to obtain records, build his private training business
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
In his final year as a police sergeant in Coral Springs in 2016, Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony used his police email account to forward various law enforcement records, including a sensitive FBI report, to himself at his private safety training business. -
DeSantis bragged about deal with lab firm now at center of COVID-19 testing scandal
By Daniel Ducassi
FloridaBulldog.org
Gov. Ron DeSantis touted an $11 million COVID-19 testing deal with a Texas-based lab now embroiled in controversy and facing questions about the reliability of its tests. -
‘Con artist’ landed major no-bid COVID contract with DeSantis administration
By Daniel Ducassi
FloridaBulldog.org
The founder and head of a health-coaching company that inked an $11.3-million deal with the state of Florida to provide COVID-19 testing and supplies pleaded guilty to two felonies last year related to insurance-fraud schemes. -
Astroturfing for politics and profit complicates Florida’s reopen protests
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Gov. Ron DeSantis is answering President Donald Trump’s call to boost economic recovery from the coronavirus by reopening most of Florida faster than public health experts want. Even so, last month saw small but high-profile rallies in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Tampa and Fort Myers, all based on the same complaint: Jobs, services and entertainment aren’t springing back quickly enough. -
Sheriff Gregory Tony’s secret: As a teenager, he shot and killed a man
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony shot and killed a man when he was a teenager living in a poor urban neighborhood in Philadelphia, according to records and interviews with family members of the dead man.
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