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The year before a 12-story building collapsed in south Florida that left at least 79 dead and 61 still unaccounted for, the state collected $13.7 million in fees from condominium owners associations, vacation timeshares and mobile home parks, but swept $5 million into the state s general fund, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported.
Those funds, collected at the beginning of every year, are supposed to go toward educating board members and reviewing complaints, but the state has made a habit of siphoning off the funds.
Since 2008, the state has diverted $65 million of the $167 million that has been taxed, nearly 40%, into the general fund, according to the Daytona Beach News-Journal.
The evidence from the collapsed Surfside condo is growing by the day, but the investigation could take years
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A man places flowers in the memorial that includes pictures of some of the victims of the collapsed Champlain Towers South condo building on July 8.
By David Shortell and Rosa Flores, CNN
With his baseball cap and thick white beard, Allyn Kilsheimer could be mistaken for a retiree if it weren’t for the team of construction workers trailing him and the long metal pole he carried as he surveyed the ground floor outside of the Champlain Towers North building.
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A man places flowers in the memorial that includes pictures of some of the victims of the collapsed Champlain Towers South condo building on July 8.
By David Shortell and Rosa Flores, CNN
With his baseball cap and thick white beard, Allyn Kilsheimer could be mistaken for a retiree if it weren’t for the team of construction workers trailing him and the long metal pole he carried as he surveyed the ground floor outside of the Champlain Towers North building.
“Here, to here, to here, to here,” he told the workers, tracing a square along a support structure built out of the building’s facade to indicate where he wanted radar testing done that would show the arrangement of the steel reinforcement beneath the surface.
Florida condo tower death toll rises to 79 Sat 10th July 2021 | 08:40 AM
Miami, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 10th Jul, 2021 ) :The death toll from the collapse of an apartment building in Florida has risen to 79, after 14 bodies were recovered from the rubble, authorities said Friday. It is a staggering and heartbreaking number that affects all of us very, very deeply, said Miami-Dade county mayor Danielle Levine Cava.
Champlain Towers South, a 12-story building in Surfside, a town north of Miami Beach, came tumbling down on June 24, as dozens of residents slept inside.
No survivors have been found since the day of the collapse.