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Proposed laws would allow billions in Florida retirement, other funds to be invested in risky Bitcoin
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Republican legislators have filed bills that would authorize politicians and bureaucrats who oversee Florida’s General Revenue Fund, the Florida Retirement System (FRS), the Hurricane Catastrophe Fund and other huge state funds to invest up to 10 percent of their cash in Bitcoin and “other digital assets.” -
Gov. Scott quietly rakes in millions from stock sales; Florida’s blind trust law ineffective
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Over the last 15 months, Gov. Rick Scott and his wife, Ann, through various entities, made more than $17 million selling hundreds of thousands of shares a single stock. Scott’s blind trust sold shares of that stock worth $2.54 million in December 2012. You aren’t supposed to know that. Gov. Scott isn’t supposed to know it either.
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