By Dan Christensen and Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
In the three weeks before Josh Levy’s re-election as mayor of Hollywood, a political action committee backing him accepted $100,000 in contributions from corporations tied to a Miami developer looking to build a controversial 30-story, luxury beachfront condo tower on public land.
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.
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Republican Marco Rubio, Florida’s senior U.S. senator, has been in office for more than a decade. You’d think by now he and his minions would have read, understood and complied with federal campaign fundraising law. Nope.
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
A private transportation company with politically astute owners and a troublesome track record could score a $9 million no-bid extension on an expired Miami-Dade contract to operate more than two dozen bus routes.
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
In a ruling that undermines an 81-year-old anti-corruption law prohibiting pay-to-play political contributions by federal contractors, an impotent Federal Election Commission last week disclosed that it allowed Boca Raton private prison contractor The GEO Group to get away with making hundreds of thousands of dollars of otherwise illegal contributions to Super PACs.
By Francisco Avarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Miami Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar’s re-election committee has amassed $147,400 in illegal excessive campaign contributions for her primary, according to a pair of recent warning letters from the Federal Elections Commission.
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