Category: Broward State Attorney
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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. -
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… -
South Florida prosecutors aren’t saying if they’ll enforce state’s strict new abortion ban
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Going by the book, anyone who violates Florida’s new six-week abortion ban commits a felony and faces up to five years in prison or a $5,000 fine. A repeat, three-time offender is looking at 10 years in prison. -
BSO Sgt cleared of wrongdoing sues Sheriff Tony, says Broward prosecutor conspired with Tony to convict him and win elections
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A Broward Sheriff’s sergeant cleared of battery and falsifying records in the controversial 2019 takedown and arrest of a black teenager amid a mob that had gathered outside a Tamarac McDonalds has sued Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony and two members of his command staff. -
End of jail bail reform may cost Broward taxpayers an extra $16.7 million
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Broward’s exercise in bail reform, intended to end the unjust treatment of the poor and minorities, died quietly Jan. 1. It was 1 ½ years old. Cause of death: the state’s Republican powers that be – the Legislature, governor and Supreme Court. -
New Florida immigration law slammed for trapping indispensable migrant farmworkers in a field of fear
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
As Florida’s governor tries to demonize and evict immigrants – once even shipping them to an island off Massachusetts – farmworker advocates are fighting back in Miami federal court.
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