Category: Business
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Pro-Trump super PAC refunds $500K to AshBritt amid FEC probe of allegedly illegal campaign contribution
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A pro-Trump super PAC has refunded a $500,000 contribution to AshBritt, the Deerfield Beach-based government disaster contractor that a Washington watchdog group says violated the ban on pay-to-play political donations. -
Broward Health scandal flares again with guilty plea by former purchasing executive
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Five years after tax-supported Broward Health was rocked by a costly kickback scandal and news the FBI was investigating alleged corruption in the hospital network’s purchasing department, the government has gotten its first guilt plea in the case. -
DeSantis gave $103.4 million in no-bid contracts to Sunrise’s MedPro, accused of ‘trafficking’ foreign nurses, to staff vaccine sites
By Daniel Ducassi
FloridaBulldog.org
The administration of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has given more than $100 million in no-bid contracts to a healthcare staffing company accused in court of profiting from the “forced labor” of foreign workers under a system of “indentured servitude.” -
Humana health plan overcharged Medicare by nearly $200 million, federal audit finds
By Fred Schulte
Kaiser Health News
A Humana Inc. health plan for seniors in Florida improperly collected nearly $200 million in 2015 by overstating how sick some patients were, according to a new federal audit, which seeks to claw back the money. -
FBI investigating Broward Sheriff Tony for suspected bid rigging, kickbacks in bleeding control kits deal
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The FBI is investigating Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony for suspected bid rigging, fraud and kickbacks stemming from BSO’s 2019 purchase of hundreds of bleeding control stations from a South Carolina company where Tony worked before becoming sheriff. -
Siblings wage brutal court war for control of Babun clan’s $100 million Miami shipping empire
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
As president and CEO of Antillean Marine Shipping Corp., Sara Babun lords over a Miami River business empire worth at least an estimated $100 million. But a toxic sibling rivalry with her brother, Jose Jesus Babun, threatens to upend the shipping and logistics enterprise that their late father, Jose Babun Selman, co-founded nearly 60 years ago.
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