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Sunburn â The morning read of whatâs hot in Florida politics â 5.6.21
Let’s start the morning with some great news about two really good people:
Aly is a vice president of Accounts with On3PR, while
Omar is deputy chief of staff to Speaker
Chris Sprowls.
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@NickConfessore: The fact that this private corporate administrative decision is being covered as something akin to a Supreme Court ruling â rightly so, I think â is the best illustration I can imagine of the sheer power Facebook has achieved over the public square
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@BostonJoan: Imagine spending millions to offload blame only to have it returned like a bill lost in the mail, which is now overdue.
Lawsuit settled in which 15 women alleged sexual abuse at Florida prison
The 15 women suing said officers had sexually assaulted and abused them for years. Now theyâve reached a settlement
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Updated May 6
The lawsuit contended that Bureau of Prisons officers at Federal Correctional Complex Coleman in Sumter County sexually abused female inmates for years and threatened the women if they didnât comply. The women feared that if they came forward theyâd be sent to another federal facility far from their families, interrupting the education and work programs they had at Coleman, which is the largest federal prison in the U.S.
Trump commutes 40-year sentence of Clearwater Ponzi scheme operator
Fred Davis Clark Jr. raised more than $300 million from investors, including for Clearwaterâs Grand Venezia on U.S. 19. He was released from prison on Jan. 13.
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Cay Clubs Resorts & Marinas CEO Dave Clark shown in 2006 at the groundbreaking of Grand Venezia resort at 18425 U.S. Highway 19 N in Clearwater that was a Ponzi scheme. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison in 2016 but his sentence was commuted by President Trump on Jan. 13. [ HANDOUT | Times | 2016 ]
Updated Jan. 20
Before an expected final flurry of pardons and commutations from the White House, President Donald Trump issued a single commutation last week to the mastermind of a $300 million vacation rental fraud that operated in Clearwater and 16 other sites.