In 2013, then-Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced she wouldn’t bring criminal or civil charges against Trump University, the online for-profit so-called college Donald Trump founded that did not actually offer university courses and was long accused of being a scam designed to defraud vulnerable people looking to get ahead.
There are tight elections, and then there’s yesterday’s race for the Group IV seat on the Miami Beach City Commission, which was so close it makes Gore-Bush look like a cakewalk.
To say GEO Group is in a slump is to put it mildly. The last time the prison company’s stock prices remained this low was in 2016, when the Obama administration announced it would phase out all federal contracts with privatized correctional facilities.
Being a Miami Heat fan is like spending a day off work at the beach — even on the rainiest days, it doesn’t suck. A Heat fan’s floor for basketball enjoyment throughout a season is most NBA fans’ ceiling. The team’s hot start this season once again proves something fans could have told everyone a long time ago: The Miami Heat is the greatest organization in the NBA.
The first day of Roger Stone’s criminal trial fittingly descended into a circus, cut short by health emergencies, protesters, and a 30-minute bathroom break by the defendant mere minutes into proceedings.
When one Florida Memorial University student began attending the historically black college in Miami Gardens this fall, she immediately noticed security in her dorm seemed lax. She had moved from Apopka to attend the school this year, but when she settled into the Willie C. Robinson Residence Hall, she says, she noticed a potential problem.
On a Monday night in August 2018, Andre Lewis was walking through the Brickell Metrorail station when a Miami police officer ordered him to leave. The 51-year-old Lewis says he was on his way out when the cop, later identified as Officer Leonel Sanchez, handcuffed him and told him he was under arrest.
Now-retired football player Kellen Winslow Jr. did not declare for the NFL draft until January 2, 2004. Today in court, he admitted to having raped an unconscious 17-year-old girl in 2003 — while he was a star tight end for the University of Miami Hurricanes.
While fans cheered the Miami Heat during yesterday’s home game against the Houston Rockets, a group of demonstrators filled three rows inside the American Airlines Arena in support of Hong Kong protesters and their demands for democracy.
In early August, North Miami immigration attorney Jill Grucan accompanied one of her clients to an interview for his application for U.S. citizenship. Her client, a 54-year-old with Down syndrome, was born in Venezuela to Cuban parents and became a permanent U.S. resident in 2015.
Saturday afternoon, the Miami Hurricanes went to Tallahassee and demolished the Florida State Seminoles 27-10. Nine sacks against FSU and some well-timed dime passes from UM quarterback Jarren Williams sealed a third straight win over Miami’s biggest rival. Much fun was had in the state capital at the Seminoles’ expense.
It’s a bad time to be an immigrant in the United States — and an especially bad time to be one in Florida. The Sunshine State has become a spill tray for the various anti-immigrant initiatives spewing from the White House.
Here’s pretty much all you need to know about Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio: He has questionable ties to Roger Stone, he thinks it’s funny to use racist and homophobic slurs, and he was banned from Twitter after threatening to report undocumented immigrants to the feds as a method of retaliation against his critics.
A Miami immigration judge with less than two years of experience on the bench was fast-tracked for a permanent position on the nation’s highest immigration court. The move has raised concerns about politicized hiring at the Justice Department.
After four days of vaping a mango-flavored CBD product from a South Florida company, Erin Gilbert developed shortness of breath, vomiting, diarrhea, and fever, she says, and was rushed to a hospital in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Bad takes — they happen to the best of us. There is literally an entire Twitter account dedicated to getting a good chuckle at how wrong we all are when it comes to sports opinions. Sometimes, though, a take is so predictably bad, so outrageously hideous, that when said take inevitably fires backward we must, by Twitter law, gather together to point it out.
Immigration detainees are held on civil, not criminal, charges. Therefore, imprisoned immigrants have argued for years they cannot legally be forced to work like prisoners while held in civil detention. In December 2017, Raul Novoa — a Mexican man living in Los Angeles on a green card — sued the GEO Group, the private prison corporation based in Boca Raton. He alleges that detainees were forced to work for the company for as little as $1 per day and that the absurdly small wages were illegal for detainees who hadn’t been convicted of crimes.
Over the past three years, JPMorgan Chase has been the top financier of fossil fuels. The company has financed nearly $196 billion for fossil fuel producers since world leaders promised to cut carbon emissions in the Paris Agreement. The bank is the largest investor in Arctic oil and gas, ultradeep oil and gas, and liquefied natural gas and is a major player in fracking.
Despite attracting shady condo sales and sleazy politicians, the Miami metropolitan area is also fertile ground for startups. It’s so fertile, in fact, South Florida ranks among the top four places in the nation for new minority-owned businesses.
CBD might be the buzziest ingredient of 2019. Just about everyone is looking to cash in, from ice-cream parlors to yoga studios to multilevel marketing operations. But one Florida company apparently took the CBD trend a bit too far.
About a hundred years ago, Florida’s bonneted bats inhabited large hollows of mature pines and glided over the vast space of the Sunshine State’s 180,000 acres of pine rockland while feeding on insects.
For years, critics have warned that Miami-area cops continue to get into trouble while working security in bars and clubs in the Magic City’s already chaotic nightlife scene. But the public has not quite known how frequently off-duty officers find themselves in trouble until today.
