Category: Government
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FEC finds U.S. Rep. Salazar’s ex- campaign treasurer ‘reckless,’ caused $2.1 million in errors and violations
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Nancy Marks did an unbelievable job raising funds while serving as treasurer of three political committees for Miami Republican Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar during her 2022 re-election campaign. Truly unbelievable. -
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. -
Presidential campaign will end, but Trump v. Clinton goes on and on
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
While his opponents deflect Donald Trump’s lie that he won in 2020 and brace for his cries of “Fraud!” if he loses next month, Trump’s lawyers are telling a federal appeals court that Democratic conspirators tried to rig the 2016 presidential election against him. -
GOP bigshot Adam Kidan: A life of luxury despite owing millions in restitution from SunCruz fraud
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Ex-con Adam Kidan has owed the U.S. government $21.7 million, plus interest, in restitution since he and ex-super lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty in 2006 to fraud and conspiracy charges in the $147.5-mllion SunCruz Casinos swindle. So how, since his release from prison in 2009, has Kidan been able to live a life of luxury? -
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Adam Kidan’s long strange trip from SunCruz scandal to big time Republican donor
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
It was the first epic South Florida scandal of the 21st Century and Adam Kidan was smack in the middle of it – a $14.5-million fraud wrapped in a congressional influence-peddling scandal inside a Mafia hit. -
Republican Rep. Byron Donalds failed to timely report numerous stock trades; a bipartisan problem
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A Washington-based watchdog group asked the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) this week to investigate rising Republican Congressman Byron Donalds for failing to promptly report more than 100 stock trades by Donalds and his wife valued at up to $1.62 million.
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