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How a Broward crook who stole $100 million got a Murder One charge cut to a misdemeanor
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Q Link Wireless CEO Issa Asad and his company pleaded guilty on Oct.15 in Miami federal court to bilking more than $100 million from a government program that provides free or discounted phone service to people in need. The sentence prosecutors are recommending: five years, which is equal to one year for every $20 million he stole. Ten years earlier, while the feds say Asad was in the middle of committing his enormous fraud, he got an even better deal in Broward Circuit Court. -
Broward Sheriff Tony seeks to play kingmaker in Miami-Dade sheriff’s race, bets big on candidate Reyes. Why?
By Dan Christensen
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The hardest case for mercy; Inside the effort to spare the Parkland school shooter
By Joe Sexton
The Marshalll Project
In the summer of 1998, Brenda Woodard and Carolyn Deakins were two of the dozens of women selling sex on the streets of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It was a desperate scene down by the 17th Street Causeway, the first bridge into the city from its south. The johns, many of them fresh arrivals from the nearby airport, would swing off U.S. 1, and conduct their business in cars along Miami Road… -
Broward Sheriff “Dr.” Tony’s attacks lead to a lesson in reality of governance
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
In the halls of BSO headquarters, Sheriff “Dr.” Gregory Tony is accustomed to hearing “Yes, sir!” from his overly fawning command staff. So it didn’t go over well when Broward commissioners recently told Tony no, that his proposal for a 48 percent budget hike – to more than $1 billion – was unworkable. -
With two scandalous disciplinary cases delayed again, Sheriff “Dr.” Tony glides toward reelection
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Fortune is smiling again on Broward Sheriff “Dr.” Gregory Tony. A pair of pending disciplinary cases against him set to be embarrassingly aired and/or decided before Tuesday’s all important Democratic primary election has been postponed under curious circumstances. -
‘Sheriff Dr. Tony’ and BSO’s budding cult of personality
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
There are some strange goings-on at the Broward Sheriff’s Office. Respected current and former deputies and observers are disturbed after watching many of Sheriff Gregory Tony’s top staff publicly glorify him on video, a budding cult of personality.
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