By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Gov. Rick Scott Wednesday rejected a recommendation that he reappoint Dr. Joshua Perper, Broward’s high-profile medical examiner, to another three-year term.
The move appears to signal the end of Perper’s 17-year tenure as Broward’s Chief Medical Examiner – a post that in 2007 made him a national media celebrity after he conducted the examination and autopsy of the body of model and actress Anna Nicole Smith.
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
South Florida Water Management District will reconsider its policies on influence-peddling after news reports about how it does not follow state laws on insider dealing and requiring lobbyists to register.
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
If political contributions and Tallahassee lobbyists are any measure, Boca Raton’s The GEO Group is the odds-on favorite to win a super-sized contract put out to bid this week in Tallahassee to privatize state prisons across South Florida.
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Florida’s top financial regulator will step down this summer and South Florida securities lawyers who say they’re seeing an ugly resurgence of boiler room stock fraud and bucket shop commodity swindles are calling on Gov. Rick Scott to name a replacement who will beef up state regulation.
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
The owner of Hallandale Beach’s Mardis Gras Gaming has paid a squad of lobbyists hundreds of thousands of dollars to sew up passage of a bill that would let it shed its moribund dog-racing business, but keep its lucrative slot machines and poker games.
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
The South Florida Water District uses a loophole in state law to avoid requiring lobbyists to register and disclose who hired them, which officials they seek to influence and how much they are being paid.
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