QUESTIONS REGARDING A POSSIBLE SLUSH FUND MAINTAINED BY STATE ATTORNEY KATHERINE FERNANDEZ-RUNDLE EVOLVED INTO A WIDE-RANGING CRESPOGRAM INVESTIGATION INTO THE ACTIVITIES OF THE TWO COMPANIES THAT OPERATE THE COUNTY’S COURT DIVERSION PROGRAMS, INCLUDING THE FUNNELING OVER $5 MILLION DOLLARS THEY COLLECTED IN QUESTIONABLE, IF NOT ILLEGAL “DONATIONS” FROM THEIR CLIENTS TO YET ANOTHER DONOR ADVISED FUND CREATED BY FERNANDEZ-RUNDLE AT THE MIAMI FOUNDATION
WITH THE HELP OF LOBBYIST RON BOOK AND A HANDFUL OF JUDGES, INCLUDING CHIEF COUNTY COURT JUDGE SAM SLOM, THE ADVOCATE PROGRAM HAS MANAGED TO KEEP POTENTIAL CHALLENGERS TO THEIR CONTRACTS AT BAY
SENIOR CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE TOM PETERSON WAS SO BRAZEN IN HIS EFFORTS TO PROMOTE THE CAUSE OF THE ADVOCATE PROGRAM AS A MEMBER OF THE CONTRACT SELECTION COMMITTEE THAT HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN REQUIRED TO REGISTER AS THEIR LOBBYIST
THE FAILURE OF THE ADVOCATE PROGRAM AND COURT OPTIONS TO PAY THE RESTITUTION MONEY OWED TO VICTIMS OF CRIME AS WELL AS THEIR FAILURE TO PROPERLY CLOSE OUT CASES RESULTED IN THE RE-ARREST OF CLIENTS WHO HAD COMPLETED THESE PROGRAMS
HOW KATHERINE FERNANDEZ-RUNDLE DECIDED THAT EXTORTING ILLEGAL “DONATIONS” FROM THE DEFENDANTS ASSIGNED TO THE ADVOCATE PROGRAM AND COURT OPTIONS AS A WAY TO FUND THE DENISE MOON MEMORIAL FUND WAS A GOOD IDEA
THE ATTORNEY WHO REPRESENTS THE CHIEF JUDGE OF 11TH CIRCUIT REFUTES CLAIM THAT “DONATIONS” COLLECTED BY COURT OPTIONS FROM PRETRIAL DEFENDANTS WERE A RESULT OF A COURT ORDER
THE CHIEF JUDGE’S ATTORNEY RESPONDS, BUT LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, DOES NOT ANSWER THE $64,000 QUESTION: WHERE IS THE LEGAL AUTHORITY TO IMPOSE “MANDATORY DONATIONS,” NOR HAS ANYONE CONSIDERED THE QUESTION OF WHETHER THE TERM “MANDATORY DONATION” IS AN OXYMORON
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LEGAL OPINIONS REVEAL THAT THE COUNTY COURT JUDGES WERE KNOWINGLY PART OF A STATE ATTORNEY'S ILLEGAL SCHEME TO EXTORT MILLIONS FROM FIRST TIME MISDEMEANOR DEFENDANTS
HOW A CPA WITH A DODGY PAST AND A PAC HE’S THE TREASURER FOR - FUNDED IN LARGE PART BY FORMER SARNOFF SUPPORTERS - AND THE TANGLED CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THIS CPA, THE STATE ATTORNEY’S OFFICE AND THE DENISE MOON FUND THAT INCLUDES A DONATION TO A FERNANDEZ-RUNDLE PAC THAT NEVER MADE IT ON THE BOOKS.
CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE RODNEY "ROD" SMITH SEEMED TO HAVE NO PROBLEM IN TREATING HIS CAMPAIGN DONATIONS AS PETTY CASH, AND WHEN HE GOT CAUGHT, HE BLAMED IT ON HIS CPA, JOAQUIN URQUIOLA 0 IT'S A SPECIAL, MIAMI, BITCHES KIND OF STORY