By Thomas Francis
BrowardBulldog.org
The Broward State Attorney’s Office will not file criminal charges against Joseph Cobo, a powerful hospital commissioner accused of exploiting his public position for private gain. But prosecutors who investigated those allegations found reason to alert the state’s ethics enforcement board.
By William Gjebre and Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Hammered with “thousands of emails and hundreds of phone calls” from angry police officers across the state, a rookie legislator Thursday withdrew his week-old bill seeking to overhaul Florida’s public retirement plans.
By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
With the state facing a mounting financial crisis, a new bill has been proposed that would slash retirement benefits for state and local government employees.
By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
Millions more in state money appears to be headed to private education in what local educators say is a cost to public schools through the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program. Broward public schools face the loss of 430 students and nearly $3 million; Miami-Dade about 1,500 students and $10 million.
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Two years after federal arbitrators found he had fleeced millions of dollars from clients with whom he once worshipped, disgraced South Florida stockbroker Gary Jay Gross was among 15 defendants charged last week in a large bank fraud scheme.
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Accusing Broward’s courts of failing to protect the civil rights of the poor and homeless, Broward Public Defender Howard Finkelstein has asked Chief Judge Victor Tobin to “instruct the judiciary” to make sure that indigents arrested for violating municipal ordinances have lawyers.
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