Category: fraud/waste/mismanagement
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17 BSO deputies charged with PPP fraud in South Florida’s broadest police scandal in decades
By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org In the most sweeping scandal to hit a South Florida police agency since the indictment of 13 Miami officers in a deadly gun-planting conspiracy in 2001, 17 Broward Sheriff’s deputies turned themselves in Thursday to face federal fraud charges for stealing from the COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and another pandemic…
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Meet the man at the center of a shadowy multimillion-dollar ‘scam PAC’ network
By Roger Sollenberger Salon A super PAC that claims to advocate for wounded veterans raised millions of dollars this year, but spent only $18,000 of it on political activity. The rest of the money was spun off to administrative and marketing services, including to three companies belonging to one person — a former long-shot Democratic…
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First guilty pleas in Port Everglades’ ongoing spending scandal
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org The first two guilty pleas in the continuing probe into out-of-control P-Card spending by Port Everglades employees were entered Wednesday in federal court in Miami – with more pleas and arrests expected to follow.
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Assignment of benefits scams rip off tens of millions of dollars a year
By Joseph A. Mann Jr. FloridaBulldog.org Over the last several years, the assignment of benefits by consumers has become a major source of fraud, abuse and overpricing. Insurance companies estimate that AOB abuse costs Florida property owners and insurance companies tens of millions of dollars a year.