By Noreen Marcus and Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
As feared, the COVID-19 virus now has invaded Broward’s jail system.
On Thursday, the Broward Sheriff’s Office disclosed that two inmates have tested positive for the deadly virus. No inmates in the Miami-Dade County Jail system have tested positive yet.
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Miami criminal defense lawyer Edward Shohat and Gordon Weekes, the No. 2 public defender for Broward County, have something in common. Both are racing against time on behalf of a client–in Weekes’s case, many clients.
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Waste Management has successfully rebutted crime-fraud allegations that, if upheld, would have forced the trash giant to disclose confidential company records it says are protected by the attorney-client privilege.
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Six hours of tedious testimony and legal jargon spewed in court last week laid out the “sloppiness and mistakes” that Broward Chief Judge Jack Tuter said accompanied Waste Management’s $510-million takeover of Southern Waste Systems.
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Newly public documents show that attorneys for the trash giant duped federal and state antitrust regulators with misleading statements and outright misrepresentations about what would happen to local competition – and municipal recycling rates – after it acquired the assets of Southern Waste Systems (SWS) and its affiliate Sun Recycling.
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Eight months ago a Broward judge determined that it is more likely than not that Waste Management committed a crime or fraud in connection with its attempts to influence federal and state antitrust regulators. What have those authorities done about it? Nothing, apparently.
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