Bipartisan probe targets C. Patrick (Pat) Roberts’ TV production firm. Tampa Bay Times by Steve Bousquet October 12, 2017 A state House committee took the extraordinary step Thursday of using its subpoena power to compel records from a long-time Florida broadcast executive and political figure who had TV contracts with Visit Florida. The House Public […]
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Hendry County didn’t break Sunshine Law in monkey farm suit, Florida appeals court rules
The News-Press by Amy Bennett Williams October 11, 2017 A Florida appeals court has quashed a lawsuit against Hendry County over two of its monkey farms once and for all. The initial 2014 suit charged that Hendry County had illegally approved a monkey breeding farm on the Lee County border without warning area residents. It was later […]
City gives FBI 150,000 Maddox records
Tallahassee Democrat by Jeff Burlew October 11, 2017 The city of Tallahassee turned over 150,000 electronic records to the FBI on Wednesday to comply with a federal grand jury subpoena for communications of City Commissioner Scott Maddox and his closest current and former aides and associates. The city said that in cooperation with the FBI, […]