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Former Broward Health purchasing executive Brian Bravo faces up to 60 years in prison if convicted of steering plum contracts to his accomplices in a kickback scheme that netted him $600,000, vacations to Cancun and the Bahamas, and even a pair of World Cup tickets, prosecutors say.
Former Broward Health executive accused of $600,000 in kickbacks Sun Sentinel 1/11/2021 Mario Ariza, South Florida Sun Sentinel © Mike Stocker / South Florida Sun Sentinel/South Florida Sun Sentinel/TNS Broward Health Imperial Point Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, photographed on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020. A purchasing executive at Broward Health steered plum contracts to his accomplices in exchange for $600,000 in kickbacks, vacations to Cancun and the Bahamas, and even a pair of World Cup tickets, prosecutors say. Now Brian Bravo, 46, faces up to 60 years in prison and a $1....
The tumultuous falling-out between Billy Brownless, his ex-wife Nicky and her new partner and Billy's former best mate Garry Lyon appears to have mended after the three of them spent Christmas Day together with their children. Five years after the marriage break-up that shocked the football world and caused a seemingly irreparable rift between the trio, they were able to break bread together. The former close mates and Footy Show co-hosts went from friends to foes in 2016 when Lyon left his wife and started a relationship with Brownless' wife of 18 years, Nicky. Both men's marriages had ende...
your friends and neighbors or somebody off the street wouldn't get because they were members of congress or working for members of congress. >> what i found amazing in your report is that according to the report, these sweetheart deals basically came about because so many congressional staffers were actually complaining to the countrywide lobbyists about their own personal loans, so the lobbyists would spend the first 30 minutes of meetings dealing with people's personal complaints. that just seems outrageous to me. >> it does. particularly when you're on the committees that are char...
get because they were members of congress or working for members of congress. >> what i found amazing in your report is that according to the report, these sweetheart deals basically came about because so many congressional staffers were actually complaining to the countrywide lobbyists about their own personal loans, so the lobbyists would spend the first 30 minutes of meetings dealing with people's personal complaints. that just seems outrageous to me. >> it does. particularly when you're on the committees that are charged with tightening up the rules and regulations. we were deali...