Tag: Lizabeth A. Brady
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The Waste Management story: Big money political donations and regulators who sit on their hands
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. -
Republican Party recycled Waste Management contributions to Bondi before antitrust deal
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
In December 2015, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office cut a secret antitrust deal with Waste Management that allowed it to complete its big money acquisition of Southern Waste Systems and Sun Recycling, including Sun’s Broward recycling facilities. In the six years before, as Bondi campaigned for election and re-election, Waste Management contributed more than $150,000 to the Republican Party of Florida, Gov. Rick Scott and Bondi. -
As Broward recycling crisis boils, Bondi’s antitrust regulators kept a secret that could cost cities
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
State antitrust regulators who OK’d Waste Management’s $525-million buyout of the company that handles recycling for most Broward cities did so only after being assured that those cities would be allowed to renew their contracts this year on the same terms and conditions.
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