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Bridget Ziegler Contradicts Husband’s Story of Planned Threesome
New details have emerged in the now-closed sexual battery investigation of recently ousted Florida GOP chairman Christian Ziegler...
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Manatee Sheriff’s Office recommends charges for former administrator Scott Hopes
Melissa Pérez-Carrillo and Gabriela Szymanowska Sarasota Herald-Tribune The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office has recommended charges for former Manatee County administrator Scott Hopes. The Sheriff’s Office received multiple complaints about Hopes in February,...
Column | Open government shouldn’t take lawyers
A former state lawmaker’s fight for COVID-19 data illustrates the ways government all too often keeps public information private, our Capitol Columnist writes. By Bill Cotterell Gov. Ron DeSantis holding a news conference about COVID-19 treatments at a Florida...
Florida doles out $50 million to contractor providing DeSantis Israel flights
A chartered flight organized by Project Dynamo arrives at Tampa International Airport on Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. The flight organized by Project Dynamo had 270 evacuees from Israel including 91 children and four dogs. By JEFFREY SCHWEERS | jschweers@orlandosentinel.com...
Florida GOP Chair Christian Ziegler has claimed he’s been falsely accused, but judge and police found probable cause he committed sexual battery
In an email sent to top Republican officials in Florida, embattled state GOP chairman Christian Ziegler characterizes himself as the...
Listen: 911 tape released in criminal investigation of Florida GOP chairman Christian Ziegler. “She told me she was raped yesterday and she’s scared to leave her house.”
The sexual battery investigation of Florida GOP chairman Christian Ziegler began with a 911 call from a friend of the alleged victim...
Florida GOP Chair Christian Ziegler, husband of Moms for Liberty cofounder, accused of sexual assault by alleged menage a trois lover
Christian Ziegler, Florida’s GOP chairman and husband of Sarasota County School Board member and Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget...
FLCGA Investigation Update: State finds Broward water district broke laws and stymied competition as it handed out millions in public contracts
A public utility in northwest Broward County violated state law while doling out nearly $70 million in public contracts, according to...
Collier Commissioner McDaniel sued for failing to release 350,000 private emails he used for county business, taxpayers to foot the bill
Collier County Commissioner Bill McDaniel has apparently been conducting a lot of county business on his personal email account – and...
The Sheriff and the Fraudster: Lee County’s top cop won’t answer questions about his association with a crooked campaign donor
On paper, Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno and alleged serial swindler Malek Khalil line up as natural adversaries, not friends. ...
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Citizens for Government Accountability/
Southwest Florida
Citizens for Government Accountability/SW Florida, an FLCGA affiliate, is a non-partisan government watchdog organization dedicated to fostering and promoting government accountability and transparency in Southwest Florida. FLCGA and CGA/SWFL collaborate on investigating, reporting, publishing and promoting issues relating to government accountability and transparency and on public record requests critical to the investigative process. Read more…