By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
One month after filing for election late last year, Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony staged an elaborate groundbreaking ceremony for what he said would be BSO’s new training center adjacent to the sheriff’s Fort Lauderdale headquarters. Nine months later, work on the $34-million project has yet to begin, and Tony’s being sued by an electrical contractor who says the sheriff stiffed him for tens of thousands of dollars in work preparing for the groundbreaking.
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Broward County blames a fight with the city of Hollywood for the county’s failure to upgrade a dangerously deficient 911 radio system for first responders. Hollywood residents who’ve worked tirelessly to save a environmentally sensitive park where the county wanted to install a radio tower disagree. They say the buck stops with the county.
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony’s campaign received a big boost as it enters the final weeks before the Aug. 19 Democratic primary, yet it also gave back $10,000 it got from an employee of a South Carolina firm that last year won a $750,000 BSO contract for bleeding-control kits.
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Two weeks after BSO paid South Carolina’s North American Rescue LLC as much as $750,000 last year to buy bleeding-control kits, the company’s CEO contributed $5,000 to Sheriff Gregory Tony’s political action committee. Eleven days ago, the PAC reported getting $10,000 from an “unemployed” South Carolina woman who in fact works for North American.
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office didn’t ask the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to conduct a background check on Gregory Tony until the day before DeSantis announced that Tony was his choice to be Broward’s next sheriff, according to state records obtained by Florida Bulldog.
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
For more than a decade it’s been publicly apparent that Jerry Frank Townsend, a black man, was framed by Broward Sheriff’s Office, Fort Lauderdale and Miami police detectives who coerced him into confessing to nearly two dozen sex murders of African-American women and children that he didn’t do.
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