By Jack Davies, Liuba Sevciuk
FloridaBulldog.org Many men have regretted their friendship with Yuri Drukker. Over the years, he forged a nearly $1 billion commodities trading empire from which he and his associates used a web of shell companies to secret hide millions of dollars in Miami and New York real estate.
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Like many politicians who leave public service, former Miami City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff is parlaying his credentials to lobby on behalf of companies seeking to do business with municipal governments in Miami-Dade. One of those firms is Orange Barrel Media, a Columbus, Ohio-based information kiosk manufacturer…
By Ann Henson Feltgen
FloridaBulldog.org
The owners of Brightline, the nation’s only privately funded and operated train, have been on notice for years that they weren’t doing enough to prevent fatalities on their tracks.
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
An ex-investigator for Miami’s Civilian Investigative Panel is getting $150,000 in taxpayer funds for settling a federal lawsuit accusing her former boss of making derogatory remarks about black people and refusing to raise her salary because of her skin color.
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Miami City Attorney Victoria Mendez fired off a quick email May 31 to her office’s paralegal Stephanie Schloss-Sassi declaring she had no documents pertaining to a public records request about Ultra Music Festival returning to the city-owned Bayfront Park. “As discussed, our office has no responsive docs,” Mendez wrote. “This doesn’t apply to us. :).” Not exactly.
By Ann Henson Feltgen
FloridaBulldog.org
Brightline’s promise to extend its South Florida passenger train service to Orlando is in jeopardy again after two counties asked a judge this month to rescind federal approval of All Aboard Florida’s plan to issue $1.15 billion in bonds to fund the project.
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