Month: June 2022
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Roger Stone offers to settle $2 million tax case after judge orders him to turn over records
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
What is Fort Lauderdale’s Roger Stone trying to hide? For 15 years, the IRS has been dunning ex-President Donald Trump’s political confidant and Stone’s wife, Nydia, for failing to pay assessed income taxes, penalties and interest for the years 2007-2011 and 2018 that now total a whopping $1,997,398.60. For years, Stone resisted paying up. Now, he wants to settle with the IRS. -
Florida Supremes asked to order Renatha Francis, who may soon join them, off a case for bias
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
The lawyer for a woman who filed an ethics complaint against Judge Renatha Francis wants the Florida Supreme Court to order Francis off her case. -
NRA’s Marion Hammer isn’t really retiring, just dodging lobbyist disclosure requirements
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Last week, the National Rifle Association announced that its longtime Tallahassee-based lobbyist Marion Hammer will “step down” but “continue to serve as an advisor to the NRA.” That’s a curious turn of a phrase. But it has a simple, unstated meaning: Hammer, 83, will soon be able to dodge once again regularly disclosing to Floridians the splendid sums the NRA slips regularly into her purse, currently more than $50,000 every three months. -
Police standards panel finds “probable cause” to consider revoking Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony’s police certification
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A four-person panel of the state commission that certifies police officers found probable cause Tuesday to revoke Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony’s license to carry a badge and a gun. -
Judge Renatha Francis lied on her application to join the Florida Supreme Court
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Renatha Francis falsely certified on her application to join the Florida Supreme Court that she’s never been on the receiving end of an ethics complaint, a possible crime under Florida law. -
Head of Miami FBI office Piro retires; Bid-rigging probe of Broward Sheriff Tony returns to Miami
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Miami FBI Special Agent in Charge George Piro is retiring, after sources say he was shown the door by FBI headquarters in Washington following a complaint by a subordinate that Piro improperly transferred his office’s bid-rigging investigation of Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony to South Carolina.
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