By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Lauren Book, the newly anointed leader of Florida’s Senate Democrats, has a financial conflict of interest that’s raising questions about her loyalties as her beleaguered party prepares for the challenge of redistricting in January.
By Joel Engelhardt
FloridaBulldog.org
For months environmentalists have whispered that the Legislature’s push toward water storage north of Lake Okeechobee was driven by sugar interests. Behind their fear is the belief that an underground water storage method that got $100 million in the two past legislative cycles and is in line for another $50 million this year would do more to help farming than it would to help the Everglades.
By Daniel Ducassi
FloridaBulldog.org
When the administration of Miami Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava signed a multimillion dollar no-bid contract with a COVID-19 testing company in late January, the mayor’s spokeswoman says nobody there knew about a well-publicized FDA alert issued weeks earlier warning of the risk of false negative results with the company’s tests.
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The Florida Commission on Ethics found “probable cause” last month to believe that Broward County Commissioner Tim Ryan filed inaccurate financial disclose forms from 2015-2017, but dropped the case after choosing to take no further action.
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.
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
A story that began with a lawyer dressed as the Grim Reaper roaming Florida beaches has developed into something really weird and threatening.
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