By Dan Christensen, BrowardBulldog.org
Tough-talking Broward Property Appraiser Lori Parrish called it a “tax dodge” four years ago when Pastor Frederick “Sonny” Irons asked her to grant his $1.9 million Fort Lauderdale waterfront estate tax-exemption as a church.
“Everyone knows what a real church is, and this isn’t it,” Parrish told the Sun-Sentinel after she rejected Irons’ request.
But Parrish [...]
Archive of entries posted on February 2010
Lori Parrish proposes, God disposes, pastor says
As Lincoln Diaz-Balart exits, the question is why?
By Dan Christensen, BrowardBulldog.org
South Florida congressmen are dropping left and right.
First, it was liberal Democrat Robert Wexler. He bolted mid-term last month to take a job running a Middle East think tank.
Now, it is conservative Republican Lincoln Diaz-Balart. He announced last week he won’t be running for a 10th term later this year.
Diaz-Balart, who represents voters [...]
Scandal plagued Broward airport contractor ousts chairman
By Dan Christensen
The slow motion fall of embattled PBS&J boss John Zumwalt moved rapidly toward closure over the weekend with the announcement that he had been replaced as company chairman and would soon resign.
Zumwalt’s ouster by PBS&J shareholders after five years as the company’s powerful chairman and chief executive officer was a surprise. His decision to leave [...]
No longer good enough to be a police officer, but fine to be a lawyer
By Dan Christensen, BrowardBulldog.org
Daniel M. Zavadil no longer carries a badge. The Fort Lauderdale Police Department fired him last fall after he admitted to signing someone else’s name on an official document.
Zavadil lost his job after authorities concluded he was unfit to serve as a city police officer because of a “lack of integrity and [...]
CEO of engineering firm for Broward’s $810 million runway expansion to step down amid scandals
By Dan Christensen, BrowardBulldog.org
The boss of one of Florida’s biggest government contractors has announced he’s stepping down. The news comes weeks after embarrassing disclosures about his personal involvement in a corporate pay to play scandal, and disclosures about possible corrupt payoffs overseas by company officials.
“After a decade of my executive leadership through the best of times and [...]
