by Karen Murphy | Aug 14, 2021
The jury in the month-long J.T. Burnette federal corruption trial in Tallahassee found the defendant guilty Friday afternoon of five charges, including extortion, and not guilty of four of the charges, including racketeering conspiracy. He will be sentenced on October...
by Karen Murphy | Aug 11, 2021
During a secretly recorded 2016 conversation between J.T. Burnette — a Tallahassee businessman on trial for racketeering, extortion, fraud and making false statements — and undercover FBI agents, Burnette bragged about working with former state...
by Karen Murphy | Aug 10, 2021
Attorney General Ashley Moody today urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to fight back against the recent scourge of illegal robocalls by moving up the deadline for smaller telephone companies to implement caller ID technology. Moody is joined by a...
by Jim Saunders - News Service of Florida | Aug 9, 2021
TALLAHASSEE — A federal judge Sunday sided with Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings in a constitutional challenge to Florida’s ban on so-called “vaccine passports,” clearing the way for the company to require passengers to show documentation that they have been...
by Karen Murphy | Aug 5, 2021
As Florida cities and counties receive billions of federal dollars that can be used to assist renters and their landlords in the wake of the pandemic, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday issued a new moratorium on evictions until...
by Karen Murphy | Jul 29, 2021
Before the first week of hearings into the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 were completed, the Florida Department of Agriculture Commissioner and the only Democrat on the Florida Cabinet, Nikki Fried, had determined those events were “sedition, treason, and...
