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By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office abruptly scrubbed her state website shortly after Jan. 6 to remove mention that she was a director of a conservative dark money group tied to the infamous insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
The group is the Rule of Law Defense Fund, an arm of the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), whose “mission is electing Republicans to the Office of State Attorney General” across the country. And as a 501(c)(4) organization, the fund doesn’t have to tell anyone – not even the Internal Revenue Service – who gives them money, an opaque status conferred on 501(c)(4)s by the Trump Administration.
By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org
Five years after tax-supported Broward Health was rocked by a costly kickback scandal and news the FBI was investigating alleged corruption in the hospital network’s purchasing department, the government has made its first arrest in the case.
Federal court records state that Brian Bravo, Broward Health’s corporate procurement officer and director of materials management from 2005-2015, was indicted quietly on Nov. 19 by a federal grand jury on five counts of bribery, conspiracy to commit bribery and money laundering, and extortion under color of official right. The indictment was made public following Bravo’s arraignment on Friday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Patrick M. Hunt.
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.