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7:48 am Dirty Gold tells the incredible story of “the three amigos”– Miami businessmen who smuggled billions of dollars in gold from South America. I spoke recently with the book’s authors, an award-winning team of current and former reporters from the  Miami Herald. As the Miami Herald’s federal courts reporter, I (Jay Weaver) came across sensational criminal stories with money laundering angles all the time. But nothing compared to the gold-smuggling network between South America and Miami. When the $3.6 billion NTR Metals money laundering case was filed in Miami federal court ...

Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 5.12.21 Good Wednesday morning. According to a new poll, Florida voters overwhelmingly support the new Gaming Compact between the state and Seminole Tribe of Florida. Gov. Ron DeSantis and Seminole Tribe of Florida Chairman Marcellus Osceola Jr. recently signed the new Gaming Compact, which would give the Tribe exclusive control of sports betting in Florida and allow pari-mutuels to offer sports betting under the tribe’s supervision. In exchange, the state would receive a minimum of $2.5 billion in revenue in...

POLITICO Get the Florida Playbook Newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Hello and welcome to Monday. Federal court here we come — The post-session lawsuit count keeps on rising. Cap imposed — Late Friday afternoon, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law that places a $3,000 limit on contributions to politi...

Book Review: Dirty Gold A team of reporters unveils a real-life tale of greed, glamour, and a trail of destruction. PublicAffairs For the Incas, gold was sacred. It had no material value, but represented the blood of their sun god, Viracocha. The Inca empire disappeared centuries ago, and gold has become the epitome of material wealth, attracting illicit players that leave behind a trail of violence and pollution. As we learn in Dirty Gold, smuggling of the precious metal has been an open secret in Latin America, with illegal shipments leaving the region and  traded by foreign companie...

DeSantis and he who must not be named — GOP-pushed probe into voter fraud comes up empty — Eskamani passes on statewide run — Arrested for recording a cop? Presented by Facebook Have plane, will travel — Gov. Ron DeSantis zipped across the state on Wednesday. Three stops. Three media markets. And at each visit, the governor held up a $1,000 check that will soon by sent out to the state’s first responders, police and firefighters. Joe who? — These checks DeSantis touted at each stop were due to President Joe Biden and a Democratic-controlled Congress sending billions of dollars to ...