Staff ReportsJuly 31, 2019
5min1298
The change of plea hearing is set for next Tuesday.
Tag: bribery
Staff ReportsJuly 31, 2019
Jim RosicaFebruary 24, 2019
7min680
Payments meant to create 'good will' aren't bribery, lawyer says.
Jim RosicaDecember 20, 2017
5min382
Update: Jack Latvala resigned from the Senate Wednesday afternoon. In a resignation letter to Senate President Joe Negron, Latvala wrote: “I have never intentionally dishonored my family, my constituents or the Florida Senate. “My political adversaries have latched onto this effort to rid our country of sexual harassment to try to rid the Florida Senate of […]
Martin DyckmanJuly 12, 2016
8min178
What might have been only a run-of-the-mill bribery case became a major chapter in Florida history, and a forerunner of a recent deeply disturbing decision at the U.S. Supreme Court. A Ft. Lauderdale labor union local wanted to dig a canal on property it owned. Seeking a shortcut, the president and two henchmen passed $1,000 […]
Jim RosicaJune 20, 2016
3min403
An alleged $500 bribe has exposed a Florida Department of Health official to up to 20 years in federal prison. Federal prosecutors in South Florida last week charged Anthony Johnson, an environmental supervisor based in Fort Lauderdale, in a corruption case involving sewer and water permits. Court records show two builders putting up a home […]
Phil AmmannMarch 17, 20167min316
A group of state senators in Kansas hope to undo by legislative fiat that which our Founding Fathers literally crafted by the sweat of their brow in the Philadelphia summer of 1787 — an independent judiciary. Last week, the Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee recommended to the full Senate that Senate Bill 439 be passed. Entitled, […]