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Staff ReportsJanuary 26, 2018

The private investigator thought to be responsible for outing an affair between Republican Sen. Anitere Flores and Democratic Sen. Oscar Braynon said he didn’t set up the website publicizing the affair, and the lawmakers weren’t who he was surveilling in the Tennyson building. Gainesville-based private eye Derek Uman told the Tampa Bay Times via email […]

Blake DowlingJanuary 20, 2018

The political world has been full of scandals over the years regarding spying and eavesdropping. President Richard Nixon certainly ranks at the top of the list. Our current President may or may not be taping calls and meetings. Lots of U.S. presidents have taped conversations. Opinions differ on the practice, good documentation versus flat out […]

Staff ReportsJanuary 9, 2018

[Updated 9:30 a.m. with statement from Flores and Braynon.] Apparently exposing new depths of Florida political espionage, an anonymous internet website appeared Tuesday morning claiming to show secretly-taped videos and secretly-shot photographs supporting allegations of a rendezvous between Republican state Sen. Anitere Flores and Democratic state Sen. Oscar Braynon II. The pair of Miami-Dade lawmakers issued a […]

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Tennyson private eye says he wasn’t investigating legislators

Blake Dowling: Who is listening?

After anonymous site outs them as couple, Sens. Oscar Braynon, Anitere Flores admit to affair