Month: April 2024
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Saudi Arabia wins dismissal of suit by relatives of dead and survivors of 2019 terrorist attack at Pensacola Naval Air Station
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A federal judge has dismissed a multi-million-dollar lawsuit seeking to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for a murderous rampage by a Royal Saudi Air Force officer at the Pensacola Naval Air Station nearly five years ago. -
Florida Bar conjures up dubious ethics complaint against DeSantis critic Daniel Uhlfelder
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
The Florida Bar is scrapping standard operating procedure in its long-running ethics case against a lawyer who defied and embarrassed Gov. Ron DeSantis with a national audience during the run-up to his presidential bid. -
NRA dumps longtime Florida lobbyist Marion Hammer, halts hundreds of thousands in payments flowing to her
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
No one seems to agree on the actual origin of the idiom, “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.” But it’s nonetheless useful to describe what just happened to longtime National Rifle Association Florida lobbyist Marion Hammer. -
Chief of FDLE Miami office retired after probe found he sent thousands of sexually suggestive texts
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
For nearly a decade, Troy Walker lorded over the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s Miami office with the iron fist of a paranoid tyrant. But it was Walker’s penchant for sending sexually explicit text messages on his work-issued phone that led to his departure. -
Whitewash at Florida ethics commission as commissioner Freddie Figgers beats ‘speeding ticket’
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
After listening to a whitewash proffered by its general counsel, Florida’s Commission on Ethics Friday gave absolution to ethics commissioner Freddie Figgers for failing to file a required financial disclosure form for 2021. -
Bob Graham, 9/11, the FBI and me
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
I didn’t get to know Bob Graham until he was late in life. I’d met him briefly a couple of times in the mid-1980s when he was in his second term as Florida’s governor and I was a cityside reporter for The Miami News, but you can’t really know someone under such circumstances…
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