Tag: Southern Waste Systems
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Judge: Waste Management has rebutted crime-fraud allegations for now
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Waste Management has successfully rebutted crime-fraud allegations that, if upheld, would have forced the trash giant to disclose confidential company records it says are protected by the attorney-client privilege. -
Bergeron v. Waste Management: Judge to decide if trash giant committed a crime or fraud
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Six hours of tedious testimony and legal jargon spewed in court last week laid out the “sloppiness and mistakes” that Broward Chief Judge Jack Tuter said accompanied Waste Management’s $510-million takeover of Southern Waste Systems. -
What Waste Management wanted to hide: how it duped state, federal antitrust regulators
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Newly public documents show that attorneys for the trash giant duped federal and state antitrust regulators with misleading statements and outright misrepresentations about what would happen to local competition – and municipal recycling rates – after it acquired the assets of Southern Waste Systems (SWS) and its affiliate Sun Recycling. -
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. -
Appeal court denies Waste Management’s bid to hide antitrust records
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The public may soon get fresh insight into why federal and state antitrust authorities allowed Waste Management’s $525-million acquisition of a rival – a controversial 2016 deal that eliminated recycling competition and hiked the cost of trash disposal across much of Broward. -
Will it be back to the future to solve Broward’s trash and recycling crisis?
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Faced with a monopolistic trash disposal system and the decline of recycling, Broward County is about to have a back-to-the-future moment.
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